The sun's magnetic pole reversal has increased solar activity, affecting satellites, communications, and space weather.

Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing ...

In the blink of an eye in geological time, Canada has lost one north pole but gained another, a new and different claim to be the true north ...

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discovered that the magnetic component of light plays a direct role in the Faraday effect, overturning a 180-year-old assumption that only its ...

A major dip in the Earth’s magnetic field over the South Atlantic has been puzzling scientists for over a century. An international team of researchers analyzed data collected by the European Space ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the ...

In a rapidly evolving world where technology and nature intersect, the South Atlantic Anomaly presents a pressing challenge, as its weakened magnetic field threatens the functionality of satellites ...

Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency's Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have discovered that the weak region in Earth's magnetic field over the South ...

The Sun’s poles are one of the last uncharted frontiers in solar physics. While space-based satellites and ground-based telescopes have provided extraordinary views of the solar surface, atmosphere, ...

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