Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...

Migratory birds are known for their ability to traverse thousands of kilometers to reach their breeding or wintering grounds.

A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs ...

Between 635 to 541 million years ago, during the Ediacaran Period, Earth witnessed a remarkable emergence of early life.

Is there something strange and alien confined deep inside the Earth? Is it trying to break free and escape into the heavens?

Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University's Binar Space Program burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

Scientists in China claimed that the magnetic shield over North America is weakening rapidly. The geomagnetic field, a kind ...

Mars' global magnetic field may have hung around for 200 million years longer than scientists had thought, possibly giving ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

A supposedly stable belt of radiation 7000 km above the Earth’s surface may in fact be producing damaging bursts of ...

The Earth’s magnetic field is why we are here today. It protects life from harmful radiation from the Sun and many other cosmic events. It is generated in the liquid outer core of our planet ...

A new Harvard study suggests that Mars’ protective magnetic field may have lasted hundreds of millions of years longer than ...