Experiments suggest that an unusual magnetic material can help harness energy from the planet’s rotation. But not everyone is ...

A trio of physicists from Princeton University, CIT's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Spectral Sensor Solutions, all in the U.S ...

Humans believe they know everything about their surroundings, yet something like the planet Earth on which we live continues to hide a multitude of mysteries that never cease to surprise us.

Energy is needed to keep the dynamo running ... Without the effects caused by the spinning Earth, the magnetic fields generated within the liquid core would cancel one another out and result ...

The Analyzer for Cusp Electrons (ACE) is designed to measure electron activity in the region of the northern magnetospheric ...

The more mass an object has, the greater its gravitational field will be. For example, the Earth has a greater gravitational field than the Moon because it has a much greater mass than the Moon.

Since its launch on March 12, 2015, NASA’s MMS, or Magnetospheric Multiscale, mission has been rewriting our understanding of magnetic reconnection, a key physical process that is important across the ...

The upper layer of the Earth's atmosphere could play a bigger role in shaping the northern lights than previously thought, University of Iowa researchers show.