Scientists have proposed a spacecraft-based system to actively strengthen Earth's magnetic shield and reduce the impact of ...

More solar storms are forecast to hit the Earth's magnetic field June 8-9, and may fire up the northern lights. Will they be ...

A coronal mass ejection that erupted from the Sun on June 6, 2026, is on track to collide with Earth’s magnetic field on ...

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A new sunspot forming on the surface of the sun might be about to fling ...

Iron-rich cells in the birds’ liver could help explain how pigeons and other animals navigate with help from Earth’s magnetic field.

In fact, there’s a name for this kind of galactic phenomena: “ space weather.” When waves of solar wind shoot out from the Sun and hit the Earth’s magnetic field, that interaction is called a “ ...

An illustration of the sun's magnetic fields overlaid on an image of the sun captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in 2016. NASA / SDO / AIA / LMSAL The sun’s magnetic field could form much ...

New research indicates the sun's magnetic field originates much closer to the surface than previously thought, a finding that could help predict periods of extreme solar storms like the ones that ...

They say beauty is only skin deep, and apparently so is the Sun’s magnetic field, according to a recent study. The Sun’s magnetic field is shallow, suggests new research, which used computer ...

I read with interest the earlier attempt to answer this question (28 May), which suggested there was probably no link. However, there is some recent evidence that Earth’s magnetic field may affect the ...