The Sun's magnetic field impacts the movement of plasma on the sun's surface, but it does not actually impact the amount of heat the sun emits. Solar flares, for example, are huge explosions that ...

The sun is on the verge of a significant event: a magnetic field reversal. This phenomenon happens roughly every 11 years and marks an important stage in the solar cycle. The shift in polarity ...

Long-term satellite measurements show that Earth’s magnetic field is changing faster and more unevenly than expected, driven ...

NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest ...

Deep beneath our feet, something extraordinary is happening. Scientists have discovered that changes in Earth's core are ...

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In the blink of an eye in geological time, Canada has lost one north pole but gained another, a new and different claim to be the true north ...

A magnetometer is a device that measures magnetism: the direction, strength, or relative change of a magnetic field at a given location.

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