Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Understanding the Mystique of Magnetic Pole Shifts Magnetic pole shifts, a subject shrouded in both fascination and fear, ...

New research suggests that Earth's inner core, long believed to be stable, may be undergoing structural changes, including a ...

Planets originate from protoplanetary disks, circulating disks of gas and dust that develop around young stars, a recent ...

This transformation is believed to be occurring at the boundary where the solid inner core meets the scorching hot liquid ...

Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.

As sunspots emerge on the sun's surface close to its equator, their orientations will match the old magnetic field, while sunspots forming closer to the poles will have a magnetic field matching the ...

A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation ...

Earth’s magnetic field, generated by movements within its molten iron core, serves as a protective shield against solar winds ...

Earth’s core is located below the middle layer called the mantle and the outer layer –or crust. It consists of two main parts ...

For the first time astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought ...

A pair of physicists at the University of Crete has found that some types of biological magnetoreceptors used by various ...