A major defense against everything space throws at us, Earth’s magnetic field may even protect the moon from damaging ...

Earth’s magnetic north pole has a new official position. The updated World Magnetic Model 2025, released by the National ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: When samples of lunar dust touched down with returning ...

Learn how a flip in Earth's magnetic field may have caused changes in the radiation on our planet.

High-energy particles called galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) bombard unprotected objects in space, often causing damage. Earth, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Protective force fields exist and you’re already living inside one. About 1,800 miles beneath the ground you’ll reach the border ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, Earth’s magnetic field behaved in a way that has long baffled scientists, showing wild and ...

You may have seen headlines or social media posts talking about a weakening of Earth’s magnetic field, specifically over the South Atlantic. It sounds dramatic, and a little scary. Is Earth losing its ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) is a particularly weak region of the magnetic field stretching from South America to western Africa. Wherever the ...

How can magnetic fields help determine the habitability of exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of researchers from the University of ...

Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) ("Spire" or "the Company"), a global provider of space-based data, analytics and intelligence, has successfully launched a satellite as part of the MagQuest Challenge, ...