A Giant Weak Spot in Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Spreading and Scientists Are Worried
A weak spot in Earth’s protective magnetic field is growing larger and exposing orbiting satellites and astronauts to…
Oxford team makes world’s first plasma ‘fireballs’ in CERN experiment
In a world first, plasma “fireballs” have been created in the lab setting using the Super Proton Synchrotron…
A Giant Magnetic Anomaly Over 500 Million Years Ago Can Finally Be Explained
Magnetic signatures hidden inside rocks tell us a lot about Earth’s magnetic field and the way continents and…
ESA’s Swarm spots a fast-growing anomaly in the Earth’s magnetic field
A representation of the South Atlantic Anomaly in 2025 (Image source: Finlay, C.C. et al., 2025; cropped) Using…
ALMA Captures Spiral-Shaped Gas Streamer Guided by Magnetic Fields in Star-Forming Region
This streamer of gas is channeling matter from the surrounding cloud of a star-forming region in Perseus directly…
Mysterious Spot in Earth’s Magnetic Field Now Growing Rapidly
A major dip in the Earth’s magnetic field over the South Atlantic has been puzzling scientists for over…
Something Weird Is Happening to Earth’s Magnetic Field
The weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field, a region over the South Atlantic where the field’s strength is…
Earth’s magnetic field is shifting — and satellites are feeling it
More than a decade of satellite monitoring has mapped Earth’s magnetic field as it subtly altered between 2014…
Weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field keeps growing, satellites show
A weak spot in the Earth’s magnetic field is growing over the South Atlantic Ocean, according to more…
China Just Created the World’s Most Powerful Magnet and It Could Be Useful In Fusion
Chinese scientists set world record with magnetic field 700,000 times Earth’s. Credit: ASIPP In Hefei, China, physicists switched…
Chinese scientists set world record with magnetic field 700,000 times Earth’s-Xinhua
Researchers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) record experiment data in Hefei, east…
NASA to study space weather from the ‘energetic beast’ we orbit
(TNND) — NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have launched three new missions to enhance our…