For decades, scientists have known that Earth’s magnetic field helps migratory birds and homing pigeons navigate. Just how ...

Pigeons sense the Earth's magnetic pull via immune cells in their liver, a new study says. Andreas Teichmann, laif/Redux ...

How animals use Earth’s magnetic field to navigate is one of biology’s biggest unsolved mysteries. This study proposes a ...

A river of molten iron, more than 2,000 kilometers below the surface, appears to have pulled off something Earth scientists ...

No one knows why the river of liquid iron flowing 1,400 miles beneath our feet just reversed course.

Earth’s magnetic field acts as an invisible shield, protecting the planet from deadly solar radiation and cosmic particles. But scientists have discovered that this shield can weaken dramatically ...

More than a decade of satellite monitoring has mapped Earth’s magnetic field as it subtly altered between 2014 and 2025 — and what scientists have learned is remarkable. The South Atlantic Anomaly, a ...

Scientists discovered a mysterious reversal in Earth’s molten core flow beneath the Pacific using satellite data from space.

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If our planet flips and no one’s around to hear it, does it still make a sound? Scientists have managed to put a chilling soundtrack to the flipping of Earth’s magnetic field — and the result is ...

The magnetic barrier that protects Earthlings from radiation almost collapsed some 565 million years ago. Here’s what saved it.