The giant-impact hypothesis posits that billions of years ago a Mars-sized body named Theia collided with the early Earth.

When it comes to layered quantum materials, current understanding only scratches the surface; so demonstrates a new study ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

A new study has accurately estimated the physical parameters of thermal and magnetic field structures of solar coronal holes which have significant influence on space weather that affects satellites, ...

Over 40,000 years ago, Earth's magnetic field pulled a switcheroo, flipping its poles in a dramatic shift known as the ...

A 42,000-year-old tree reveals Earth’s last magnetic pole flip, exposing the planet to deadly radiation. Scientists warn a ...

Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

Two scientists from Toho University and NASA’s Nexus for Exoplanet System Science ran computer simulations and found that ...

Earth’s inner core is shifting, slowing, and reshaping. Scientists study its impact on magnetic fields, pole movement, and ...

A new study shows that the inner core changed shape in just a few decades, challenging previous assumptions and revealing ...

Baby loggerhead turtles “dance” when they are expecting food, a behaviour that researchers have used to investigate their navigation abilities. By learning to associate a magnetic field with a food, ...