Chinese scientists discovered that the moon's magnetic field lasted much longer than expected, persisting into its midlife. By studying tiny rocks brought back by the Chang’e-5 mission, they found the ...

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Earth’s magnetic field seems steady and true — reliable enough to navigate by. Yet, largely hidden from daily life, the field drifts, waxes and wanes. The magnetic North Pole is currently careening ...

How does the Sun’s magnetic field react during solar storms? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists led by the Southwest ...

At a Thursday lecture event, Benjamin Weiss, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spoke about his recent research on the lunar dynamo, which ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Christopher Davies, Associate professor, University ...

Mars' magnetic field may have survived 200 million years longer than scientists had thought — crucially, long enough for it to overlap with the presence of liquid water on the surface of the Red ...

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