Earth's magnetic field dramatically flipped roughly 41,000 years ago. We can now experience this epic upheaval, thanks to a ...

Here’s how it works. A near collapse of Earth's magnetic field may have paved the way for life to evolve past the microscopic stage. New research on ancient rocks from South Africa and Brazil ...

The Earth's magnetic field is essential to life as we know it. But it’s something we can never see – or hear, until now. In a recent study released on Oct. 10 by the European Space Agency ...

A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years.

University of Rochester illustration / Michael Osadciw Earth’s magnetic field sustains life on our planet, protecting us from solar winds, radiation and extreme changes in temperature.

These rocks offer evidence that Earth had a strong magnetic field 3.7 billion years ago, but scientists aren't sure where that field could've come from. A 3.7-billion-year-old record of our planet ...

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Earth's north magnetic pole is so out of whack that scientists need to update the global magnetic-field model they released only four years ago. Could that be a sign that the magnetic pole will ...

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But Gallet, of France’s Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, had his face turned toward the rocks with one goal in mind: deciphering the history of Earth’s magnetic field. This protective ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. The Earth's magnetic field acts as an invisible shield against the life-threatening environment in space, especially radiation and ...

Earth’s magnetic field sustains life on our planet, protecting us from solar winds, radiation and extreme changes in temperature. But around 591 million years ago, it almost collapsed.