"If the effect is real and scaling behaves the way our equations say, then the possibility becomes real," Chyba told Newsweek ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth.

Imagine Earth suddenly stops spinning what happens next? From flying debris and mega-tsunamis to magnetic collapse and ...

Earth's dipole field is currently tilted by approximately 9.2 degrees relative to its axis of rotation. This causes the deviation between geomagnetic and geographic poles. The strength of the field ...

Scientists convert Earth's magnetic field collapse from 41,000 years ago into chilling audio, revealing ancient cosmic ...

Bogong moths use stars and Earth’s magnetic field to navigate epic migrations - revealing the first known stellar compass in ...

Australia’s iconic bogong moths are the first creatures other than humans and some birds known to navigate by the night sky.

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

Astronomers used AI and high-throughput computing to analyse Event Horizon Telescope data on black holes.

The Solar Orbiter is the first spacecraft to study the Sun's poles - and finds the magnetic field in a state of flip ...

The geomagnetic storm was triggered by the impact of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun. A powerful geomagnetic storm with winds of up to 1 000km per second that swept across Earth’s magnetic ...

That rotation is important, and to understand why, we have to consider another animal that uses the stars as a guide: the ...