NASA monitors the South Atlantic Anomaly, a growing magnetic field disturbance affecting satellites and spacecraft.

NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies ...

What Is a Magnetosphere? A magnetosphere is the region surrounding a planet that is dominated by its magnetic field. While ...

The South Atlantic Anomaly causes technical problems for satellites and spacecraft and calls into question the uniformity of the Earth's magnetic field.

Experts from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the British Geological Survey joined forces, as they ...

What we have to do is to put a model of the Earth filled with sulfuric acid inside that giant magnet and shine a laser through it and take some measurements. Professor Alban Pothérat Most ...

It's time to recalibrate the navigation systems on ships, airplanes, and (given the time of year) Santa's sleigh: the ...

The sun is bidding farewell to 2024 with a bang—or rather several bangs. Our star produced three powerful flares on December ...

the World Magnetic Model 2025 has been released this week, revealing the latest official predicted placement of Earth's magnetic fields. This version will remain valid until late 2029, during ...

On Dec. 17, the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and the British Geological Survey (BGS) released an updated version of the World Magnetic Model, a prediction for how Earth's ...

While shifting is not a rare occurrence, the pole is moving both faster and differently than it was before, raising questions about the planet's magnetic field. If the Earth's field is disrupted ...