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Tens of thousands of years ago, Earth's magnetic field flipped — and scientists have recreated the haunting sound it made.

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The Creepy Sounds the Earth Made When Its Magnetic Field Flipped Will Haunt Your Dreams

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers have allowed a small piece of "gravity-free" graphite to levitate almost perfectly still above a grid of magnets.

Science & Energy

Scientists Show Off Levitating Material

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists are suggesting that we protect humans on Mars from deadly atmospheric conditions by kickstarting the planet's magnetic field.

Scientists Propose Jumpstarting Mars’ Magnetic Field to Make It Habitable

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA is sending a spacecraft to the lunar surface to explore "one of the most distinctive and enigmatic natural features on the Moon."

2024 NASA Landing to Explore Mysterious Magnetic “Swirl” on Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Anomaly in Earth’s Magnetic Field May Be Caused by Buried Fragment of Ancient Planet

Anomaly in Earth’s Magnetic Field May Be Caused by Buried Fragment of Ancient Planet

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of researchers has dug through hundreds of years worth of data surrounding the Earth's magnetic field and found something unusual.

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A Huge “Magnetic Anomaly” Struck One Geographic Spot, Hundreds of Years Ago

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists have been tracking a strange "dent" in the Earth's magnetic field as its slowly moving westwards over the southern Atlantic Ocean.

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NASA Is Tracking a “Dent” in the Earth’s Magnetic Field

By Victor Tangermann

New models suggest that Earth's magnetic field, already overdue for a total reversal, could shift faster than we thought.

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Scientists: Earth’s Magnetic Field Could Shift 100x Faster Than Observed

By Dan Robitzski

A team of MIT scientists belive that the magnetic field of the Moon was caused by a crystallizing iron core "dynamo" about a billion years ago.

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MIT: A “Dynamo” Inside the Moon Shut Down a Billion Years Ago

By Victor Tangermann

The Earth's magnetic north pole has been wandering towards Siberia at an increasing pace that has scientists scratching their heads.

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Earth’s Magnetic Field is Doing Something Very Strange

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's InSight Lander on the surface of Mars detected a series of strange magnetic pulses that occurred exactly at midnight.

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NASA’s Mars Lander Detects Mysterious Magnetic Pulses

By Victor Tangermann

The Earth's magnetic field is behaving erratically, and researchers can't update an important model of it until the government shutdown ends.

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Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Behaving Erratically, Baffling Scientists

By Kristin Houser

This Week in Science: Sept 15-21

This Week in Science: Sept 15-21

By Victor Tangermann

Science & Energy

The Earth’s Magnetic Poles Are Overdue for a Switch

By Chelsea Gohd

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New Superconducting Magnet Smashes World Record

Researchers Have Found Evidence of Cracking in the Magnetosphere

From Quarks to Quasars

Researchers Have Found Evidence of Cracking in the Magnetosphere

By Jelor Gallego