Earth's magnetic field is generated by the churn of its liquid nickel-iron outer core, but it is not a constant feature.

The blobs lie at the base of Earth’s mantle, around 1,802 miles beneath Africa and the Pacific.

The joint development team of Professor Shibata (the University of Tokyo), JEOL Ltd. and Monash University succeeded in directly observing an atomic magnetic field, the origin of magnets (magnetic ...

Before two dead stars slam together in one of the universe’s most violent events, their magnetic fields erupt in a storm so ...

Deep inside Earth, two massive hot rock structures have been quietly shaping the planet’s magnetic field for millions of ...

Scientists are mapping the Milky Way galaxy’s invisible magnetic field, revealing how it holds the galaxy together and ...

Most of the time, the shape of Earth’s magnetic field is quite similar to that which would be produced by a bar magnet ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Key points Shaped like the Australian coastline, the Australia Magnetic Anomaly is a concealed magnetic geological feature ...

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, researchers ...