Earth is fortunate in having a magnetic field: it protects the planet and its life from harmful cosmic radiation. Other ...

At these distances, the satellites remain within Earth’s protective magnetic shield and can reliably measure the planet’s ...

The Solar Dynamics Observatory saw a lunar transit and an Earth eclipse on July 25 — the first when the moon passed between ...

Research shows Earth’s magnetic field may have formed with a fully molten core - protecting the planet long before the inner ...

How can artificial intelligence (AI) be used to locate lunar pits and skylights, which are surface depressions and openings, ...

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For more than 100 years, scientists have puzzled over whether the Earth’s magnetic field had already been generated stably ...

Interlune hopes to mine the rare helium-3 isotope from the lunar surface. Customers are already lining up, including the U.S.

NASA’s newest mission, TRACERS, soon will begin studying how Earth’s magnetic shield protects our planet from the effects of space weather.

The moon causes a second phenomenon that affects Earth’s rotation on a human timescale. Beachgoers know full well that the moon’s gravity causes the seas’ daily high and low tides, and the solid Earth ...

This summer a few factors are adding up to make a handful of Earth’s spins—those occurring on July 10, July 22 and August 5—more than a millisecond faster than the average of the past several decades.

A viral rumour claiming a rare solar eclipse will darken the world on 2 August 2025 has been debunked by NASA. There is no ...