With aircraft increasingly targeted by GPS jammers, the search for new ways to navigate is hotting up.

Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars.

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

Scientists have known for a while that Mars currently lacks a magnetic field, and many blame that for its paltry atmosphere – ...

Like Earth, Mars once had a strong magnetic field that shielded its thick atmosphere from the solar wind. But now only the ...

Learn about Mars' defunct magnetic field, which may have sustained life on the planet and covered only its southern ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

Uncover the mysteries of Mars' magnetic field, generated by a molten core, unlike Earth's solid core structure.

Scientists have long puzzled over why Mars, once protected by a global magnetic field like Earth, now shows only a magnetic ...

New research published by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics offers a compelling explanation for the strange ...

Mars' magnetic mystery may finally have a solution—scientists now think the Red Planet’s ancient magnetic field only existed ...