Imagine waking up one morning to a world where compasses point south instead of north, where auroras shimmer across the ...

Ochre body paint may have been a form of prehistoric sunscreen that helped early humans survive a sudden increase in ...

Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within ...

Scientists have long puzzled over why Mars, once protected by a global magnetic field like Earth, now shows only a magnetic ...

Uncover the mysteries of Mars' magnetic field, generated by a molten core, unlike Earth's solid core structure.

making near-Earth space extremely chaotic – justifying the analogy to meteorological weather. The magnetosphere generally describes the area around a celestial body in which the behaviour of charged ...