Loggerhead turtles are able to sense Earth's magnetic field in two ways, but it wasn't clear which sense the animals use to ...

For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the ...

New research shows that light’s magnetic field is far more influential than scientists once believed. The team found that ...

A weak spot in Earth’s protective magnetic field is growing larger and exposing orbiting satellites and astronauts to more ...

Traditionally, scientists believed that the charge polarity of the magnetosphere at the equator and the poles was the same, ...

Geologists discovered ancient rocks in Greenland that preserve the oldest known traces of Earth’s early magnetic field.

A new study details the loggerheads’ ability to “map” their position by using the Earth’s magnetic field, with possible ...

Loggerhead hatchlings travel thousands of miles guided by an astonishing built-in navigation system that uses the Earth’s magnetic field. Scientists trained young turtles to “dance” in response to ...

Quantum devices that measure Earth's magnetic fields could help replace GPS—if researchers can figure out how to tell when ...

A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic fields protect planets from energetic particles that can strip away atmospheres ...

An estimated 1 trillion species of microorganisms reside on Earth, yet scientists have been able to study less than two ...

The federal government is pushing hard to pinpoint domestic sources of rare earth elements and critical minerals ...