As sunspots emerge on the sun's surface close to its equator, their orientations will match the old magnetic field, while ...

Learn more about the NASA instrument’s mission to take the first full image of Earth’s magnetic field.

The average Hackaday reader likely knows, at least in the academic sense, what a magnetic field looks like. But as the gelatinous orbs in our skull can perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Without its magnetic field, life on Earth would not be possible since this shields us from harmful cosmic radiation and charged ...

NASA has turned its focus to a puzzling phenomenon in Earth’s magnetic field that could have an effect on life as we know it.

The study, published online on Thursday in the journal Nature, challenges the prevailing view that the lunar magnetic field sharply declined around 3.1 billion years ago and has remained weak ever ...

Rock samples collected from the moon's far side by China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe indicate an unexpected resurgence in the moon's magnetic field strength 2.8 billion years ago, which challenges the ...