Earth is fortunate in having a magnetic field: it protects the planet and its life from harmful cosmic radiation. Other ...

For more than 100 years, scientists have puzzled over whether the Earth’s magnetic field had already been generated stably ...

Experts warn that "something" in the core of the Earth is causing the magnetic pole to shift. North Pole is shifting toward ...

Boldly etched into the flow of solidifying lava across Earth, the Matuyama-Brunhes event is used by geologists as a marker of ...

Earth's outer core is made up of liquid iron and nickel and surrounds the solid inner core. Its churning movements create Earth's magnetic field, which surrounds the planet and shields it from ...

The magnetic field arises as a result of interactions in the Earth’s iron-rich core, which consists of a solid inner core and a fluid outer core. The flow of heat from the core drives fluid motions in ...

For more than 100 years, scientists have puzzled over whether the Earth's magnetic field had already been generated stably ...