A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

Researchers are now trying to understand the "innermost inner core" of the Earth by studying how seismic waves travel through ...

Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the ...

Diagram showing the Earth’s inner core, once thought to be solid ... Scientists suspect this iron center may shift in ways that influence the planet’s magnetic field, given how much of that field is ...

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In this context, the compass is responsible for orientation, meaning the direction of movement relative to external factors such as the Earth’s magnetic field, the position ... area Navigation” ...

A new theory challenges the standard model of cosmology, arguing that dark matter and dark energy are not the forces behind ...

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

The Earth's magnetic field quietly supports life on the planet and now, for the first time, its invisible powers have been used to create new nanoparticles and materials. Scientists at Flinders ...

The team found that the North Pole wandered over Europe when the magnetic field's poles started to flip positions, a natural process that has happened around 180 times over Earth's geological history.