The Earth's magnetic field has been getting weaker over the past few centuries. This weakening can be seen in data gathered ...

Was the fate of early humans and megafauna recorded in rings of a primeval tree? Beneath the bogs of New Zealand’s Northland is a massive Ngāwhā kauri, living from 41,000 to 42,500 years ago, which ...

Moroccan rocks reveal that Earth’s magnetic field once changed fast but followed a hidden order, helping scientists map ...

Forty-two thousand years ago, Earth’s magnetic field collapsed - the sky turned electric, radiation burned the surface, and humanity was forced underground. Scientists call it the Adams Event, a ...

A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years. A core of rock and sediment drilled from the bottom of Lake Chala, a picturesque crater lake ...

The solar wind flows around Earth's magnetic field. A new NASA study suggests that the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere and strength of the magnetic field have been correlated for more than half a ...

Earth's magnetic field dramatically flipped roughly 41,000 years ago. We can now experience this epic upheaval, thanks to a clever interpretation of information collected by the European Space ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed. What followed was a cascade of environmental and biological changes that ...

Scientists who know an awful lot more than us have determined what year we can expect the demise of our planet to take place ...

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Scientists have discovered that a weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field is expanding, raising concerns about potential impacts on satellites and space technology.