Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over 11 years of satellite data reveal that Earth's magnetic field is reshaping. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) More than a decade of ...

NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission scientists have uncovered a key puzzle piece in understanding ...

Earth’s magnetosphere, once thought to have a simple electric polarity pattern, has revealed a surprising twist. New satellite data and advanced simulations show that the morning side of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists studying Earth's magnetic field have discovered that its electric heartbeat flows in the opposite direction from what ...

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 ...

Brown dwarf magnetic field measurement achieves a first: Dutch astronomers directly read the field strength of a methane ...

The weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field, a region over the South Atlantic where the field’s strength is significantly reduced compared to its surrounding area, has grown by an area nearly the size of ...

Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency's Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have discovered that the weak region in Earth's magnetic field over the South ...

If our planet flips and no one’s around to hear it, does it still make a sound? Scientists have managed to put a chilling soundtrack to the flipping of Earth’s magnetic field — and the result is ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet's magnetic field nearly collapsed. What followed was a cascade of environmental and biological changes that ...

Two vast, mysterious blobs of hot rock around Earth’s core may have been instrumental in producing Earth’s magnetic field and caused it to be slightly wonky for millions of years. Scientists have ...

More than a decade of satellite monitoring has mapped Earth's magnetic field as it subtly altered between 2014 and 2025 — and what scientists have learned is remarkable. The South Atlantic Anomaly, a ...