A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years.

A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years. A core of rock and sediment drilled from the bottom of Lake Chala, a picturesque crater ...

Earth's magnetic field was so weak it almost disappeared. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, complex life emerged.

If you ever travel back in time to hang out with Homo sapiens around 41,000 years ago, pack some sunscreen – or better yet, a ...

They open new perspectives on the geological and atmospheric history of Mars ... promoting asymmetric convection currents. Unlike Earth, where the presence of a solid inner core stabilizes the ...

A storm as ferocious as the one of 12,350 BC would likely cause complete mayhem if it were to strike Earth and its ...

This exciting discovery opens up new possibilities for auroral research and confirms that auroras could be visible to future ...

The study, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, has shed light on the extreme solar particle event that Earth experienced in 12,350 B.C.E. Such extreme events have only occurred a handful ...

Earth’s magnetic field is generated by the movement of molten iron in our ... Understanding the evolutionary history of magnetoreception not only illuminates how birds developed this remarkable ...