Earth’s magnetic field nearly collapsed long ago. What saved it explains why life survived and why the planet remains ...

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over 11 years of satellite data reveal that Earth’s magnetic field is reshaping. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) More than a decade of ...

How can magnetic fields help determine the habitability of exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

Life on Earth faces lots of potential calamities. There are extinction-level asteroids or comets buzzing around the sun, potential volcanic eruptions that could lead to years of winter, as well as ...

DENVER — A group of undergrad students is developing a magnetic shield to defend interplanetary astronauts from the intense cosmic radiation between Earth and Mars. The students, from Drake University ...

Mars is the next big frontier of human space exploration, but it’s hardly a hospitable world. While there have been many proposals for making the Red Planet a bit more cozy, NASA scientists have now ...