Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

A team of scientists from the University of Liverpool have found two strange anomalies that have affected the Earth's ...

All this is going on many miles below our feet.

The Smile mission is set to launch on a Vega-C rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on Thursday, April 9, at 08:29 CEST/07:29 BST/03:29 local time.

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During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed. What followed was a cascade of environmental and biological changes that ...

Scientists discover that the Earth's magnetic poles can take up to 70,000 years to reverse, much longer than previously thought.

The magnetic fields are more than a thousand times stronger than the magnetic field used in MRI machines.

Earth’s magnetic shield is shifting in dramatic ways. New data from ESA’s Swarm satellites show that the South Atlantic Anomaly — a vast weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field — has grown by nearly half ...