Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: It used to be thought that there were more volatiles than expected in lunar soil because they escaped Earth before it had a stable magnetic field.

Earth’s magnetic field has long been framed as a planetary force field, a protective bubble that keeps the worst of the Sun’s radiation at bay. Increasingly, though, scientists are finding that this ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Oct 23, 2025, 12:48pm EDT Oct 23, 2025, 01:42pm EDT Illustration ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Evans, left, and James Pierce in the Yale Paleomagnetic Laboratory. (CREDIT: Allie Barton) Long before life thrived in Earth ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field. Rather than blocking particles, the magnetic field can funnel them along ...

Schematic of the Earth’s magnetic field (upper left), history of geomagnetic reversals inferred from the remanent magnetization of ocean-floor rocks (lower left; compiled from data in Ogg, Geologic ...

Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, have resolved a long-standing debate about the strength of the moon's magnetic field. For decades, scientists have argued about ...

Scientists discovered microscopic magnetic particles in most bee species examined. This finding suggests a widespread ...

Long before life thrived in Earth's oceans, the planet's magnetic field became disorganized. Deep within the ancient rocks of Morocco, scientists have recovered one of the clearest records of that ...