Earth's magnetic field dramatically flipped a little more than 40,000 years ago. We can now experience this epic upheaval, ...

Some animals that migrate across the globe-such as birds, salmon, lobsters and sea turtles-are known to navigate using the ...

Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their ...

Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to ...

Discover how sea turtles navigate the ocean using their internal GPS and learn about their magnetic field perception.

Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their ...

New research indicates that matter ejected during the supernova death of a star can fall back to neutrons stars, giving rise ...

Instead, magnetic north is the changing location where the planet’s magnetic field lines converge. This field is generated by the churning of the planet’s outer core, a layer of molten iron and nickel ...

Scientists have uncovered the long-sought mechanism behind low-field magnetars, showing that supernova fallback material ...

Earth's magnetic field occasionally bursts into song — but these compositions are written with electromagnetic radiation, not ...

Planets originate from protoplanetary disks, circulating disks of gas and dust that develop around young stars, a recent ...

By studying the fastest jet ever seen erupting from an infant star, astronomers have discovered that the mechanism that ...