Scientists have solved a long-standing mystery about the Moon's magnetic field: it turned out that it sometimes generated ...

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Scientists studying lunar samples have finally resolved a decades-long debate about the Moon’s ancient magnetic field.

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Something massive is happening beneath your feet right now, and most people have absolutely no idea. Earth's magnetic field, ...

Deep inside the Milky Way, an invisible force is quietly holding everything together — its magnetic field. Now, researchers have created one of the most detailed maps ever of this hidden structure, ...

For desert ants, Earth’s magnetic field isn’t just a compass: It may also sculpt their brains. Stepping outside their nest for the first time, young ants need to learn how to forage. The ants train ...

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New results from China’s Chang’e 5 mission suggest that the Moon possessed a magnetic field well into its midlife, much longer than previously documented. In work published Jan. 1 in Science Advances, ...

Magnetic fields play an important—if sometimes underappreciated—part in planetary systems. Without a strong magnetic field, planets can end up as a barren wasteland like Mars, or they could indirectly ...