Sometimes the geologic record obscures evidence of these important reversals in field direction, but statistical techniques ...

Researchers have identified a period of sluggish magnetic field flipping for planet Earth, some 40 million years ago – ...

A sediment core from the North Atlantic has revealed that one ofEarth’s magnetic field reversals during the Eocene lasted far ...

Learn how some of Earth’s magnetic field flips last longer than others, weakening our defenses against cosmic radiation.

The surface of the sun writhes and dances. Far from the still, whitish-yellow disk it appears to be from the ground, the sun sports twisting, towering loops and swirling cyclones that reach into the ...

Earth's magnetic field exhibits a significant weakening in the South Atlantic Anomaly, a region expanding and becoming more ...

Deep inside the Milky Way, an invisible force is quietly holding everything together — its magnetic field. Now, researchers have created one of the most detailed maps ever of this hidden structure, ...

Deep beneath the ocean floor, ancient sediments hint that Earth’s magnetic field sometimes changed far more slowly than expected.

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Two ways of measuring how fast the universe is expanding disagree, a puzzle known as the Hubble tension. Tiny magnetic fields from the Big Bang may offer a solution.

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