New satellite data show Earth’s magnetic field changing fast, with a growing weak spot over the South Atlantic.

Earth’s magnetic field is essential to life on our planet. It protects Earth from cosmic radiation and acts as a shield ...

The South Atlantic Anomaly, a strange dip in the Earth's magnetic field, has grown rapidly over the last eleven years, new ...

The South Atlantic Anomaly, or SAA, has been known since at least the 1960s, but there were no detailed, continuous studies ...

A notorious weak spot in Earth’s magnetic shield is growing larger and weaker. This is the conclusion of a new analysis of ...

Per the ESA, this phenomenon can be best explained by strange behaviors far within the Earth at the boundary where the Earth's liquid outer core meets the rocky mantle layer. This boundary, referred ...

An all-superconducting magnet built by Chinese scientists has generated a world-record steady magnetic field of 35.1 tesla, about 700,000 times stronger than Earth’s magnetic field. The development ...

Images taken of the Universe's most photogenic black hole over time reveal strange and exciting changes in its magnetic field. Using observations obtained using the Event Horizon Telescope in 2017, ...

MAST Upgrade team claims first suppression of pesky edge instabilities in a spherical tokamak Scientists at the UK Atomic ...

The Census Bureau plans to use U.S. postal workers as census takers in at least two locations during field tests next year for the 2030 census, which will determine political power and federal funding ...

Based on multi-year data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), the finding reveals a dynamic and unstable region just outside M87*’s event horizon. While the black hole’s shadow has remained ...