The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

Our planet’s gymnastics routine continues underneath our feet nearly every day, but researchers recently mapped what they say is one of the most “drastic events in the evolution of ...

The poles can flip over the course of hundreds or thousands of years, and this can happen at random, with intervals ranging anywhere from 10,000 years to 50 million years or more. Around 41,000 years ...

The last full reversal took place approximately 780,000 years ago - leaving some experts to predict another flip is imminent.

The last full reversal took place approximately 780,000 years ago - leaving some experts to predict another flip is imminent.

In 2024, researchers transformed readings of an epic upheaval of Earth's magnetic field flipping 41,000 years ago into an eerie, auditory experience.

There are more ways than we knew for the stratospheric polar vortex to get disrupted, shooting cold air southwards across ...

New NASA research demonstrates that 540 million years of Earth’s magnetic field changes have corresponded to surface habitability.

Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere and magnetic field make life possible, but scientists have discovered that there’s a hidden link between the two that’s stronger than we originally imagined.

In 2021, researchers predicted that a geomagnetic reversal could lead to mass extinctions and climate chaos—not from the flip itself, but from the collapsing magnetic field. With Earth’s shield ...

A space physicist has suggested that a reversal of the Earth’s magnetic poles may have wiped out the Neanderthals.

Every breath we take in contains 21% oxygen, the gas that makes life on Earth possible. Oxygen, in its combined oxide state, has always been abundant in Earth's crust, but elemental diatomic ...