The Sun's polar regions are pretty busy and chaotic places, but our newfound views of its south pole will help predict future ...

Samples from Nasa's Apollo missions hinted that it existed more than three billion years ago, with strengths rivalling ...

Earth’s magnetic field seems to correlate with conditions that helped complex life to thrive — a discovery that could aid the search for life on distant exoplanets.

Rebuilding the past often takes more than digging through ruins or reading faded scrolls. To truly understand ancient ...

[MUSIC] JOAN CARTAN-HANSEN, HOST: Force is a fancy word for a push or a pull. And motion ... Even the earth itself is a big magnet with a magnetic field that protects the planet from solar winds ...

for those more familiar with the unit used to measure Earth’s magnetic pull). Weaker hard ferrite (iron-oxide) permanent magnets typically max out at around 0.35 tesla. The world's strongest ...

The liquid flow of the outer core as well as pull from an uneven gravity field ... It is possible that the changes are connected to changes in Earth's magnetic field. "The magnetic field has ...

Astronomers may have discovered a rare type of binary star system, where one star used to orbit inside its partner.

Chinese scientists have found direct evidence that the moon’s magnetic field persisted well ... billion years ago – less than 10 per cent of Earth’s present-day surface field.