From navigation to solar weather forecasting, many different areas of research require space-based sensors to measure Earth's magnetic field as accurately as possible at any given moment. So far, ...

On the International Space Station, a cube holding a diamond-based sensor revealed the potential for quantum magnetometers.

From time to time, the Earth's magnetic poles flip, leaving us without a protective magnetic field for up to centuries ...

Scientists were studying the human brain when they realized it was detecting something it shouldn't. The human brain can ...

“Migratory birds possess a true magnetic compass—they can actively sense and extract directional information from the Earth’s ...

Scientists have known for decades that many animals use the Earth's magnetic field for navigation. It's less clear how they do it. A new study suggests earthworms may be a good way to figure it out.

The strength of Earth’s magnetic field seems to rise and fall hand-in-hand with the abundance of oxygen in its atmosphere, a study of geological records spanning the last half billion years has found.

For all we’ve learned about places far away in outer space, we may have barely scratched the surface of the places lying deep within Earth. As a result, there’s a lot of information we seem to be ...