When Santa is done delivering presents on Christmas Eve, he must get back home to the North Pole, even if it's snowing so hard that the reindeer can't see the way.

Scientists discovered Earth’s magnetic field is weakening over the Atlantic Ocean, but what does that mean for life on the ...

Magnetic compasses can be fooled by steel hulls and shifting magnetic poles, so ships turn to gyroscopes instead. This video ...

White men feel something 'much deeper' has changed that's 'fundamentally illiberal': Writer Inflation slowed to 2.7% last ...

MIT professor and plasma physicist Nuno Loureiro was fatally shot in Massachusetts. Here’s what to know about his career and ...

The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

New models suggest Uranus and Neptune may hold far more rock than expected, raising questions about how these distant planets formed.

Researchers have uncovered evidence that Uranus and Neptune could be far rockier on the inside than anyone expected.

China currently accounts for around 60% of global rare earth mining, according to the International Energy Agency, and about 90% of refining (including ore mined in and shipped from the U.S.). It also ...

The movement of the magnetic North Pole is the result of the Earth having an active core. The inner core, starting about 3,200 miles below your feet, is solid and under such immense pressure that it ...

CINEMA, a mission to improve understanding of the growing impacts of space weather, has been competitively selected by NASA ...