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

Scientists have long puzzled over why Mars, once protected by a global magnetic field like Earth, now shows only a magnetic ...

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

Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within ...

T he Sun goes through an 11-year cycle of activity, going from the solar maximum, where it is covered in many sunspots and is ...

A rare solar outburst collided with Earth's magnetic field, unleashing a celestial storm. As geomagnetic chaos swept across ...

An international research team led by Mayukh Kumar Ray, Mingxuan Fu, and Satoru Nakatsuji from the University of Tokyo, along ...

The bumblebee-inspired robot is less than a centimeter wide and can hover, change direction, and hit small targets. Like a ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

The production of tailored clothing and the use of ochre as a sunscreen may have given Homo sapiens an advantage over ...

The Northern Lights are caused by the interaction of solar wind - a stream of charged particles escaping the Sun - and our ...

A new explanation has emerged for why Homo sapiens survived in Europe and North Asia when the apparently better-adapted ...