Did ancient sunscreen and sewing needles save humanity? In a nutshell 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field weakened to ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

A trio of recently launched satellites will watch the sun's energy whack the Earth, helping us predict solar storms ...

NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest ...

"The solar wind squished Jupiter’s magnetic shield like a giant squash ball," O'Donoghue said. "This created a super-hot ...

Jupiter's diameter is 11 times larger than Earth's, meaning this heated region ... of solar wind had compressed Jupiter's enormous magnetosphere shortly before the observations began.