For decades, scientists assumed that Earth’s magnetosphere had the same charge polarity from pole to equator. That assumption ...

Traditionally, scientists believed that the charge polarity of the magnetosphere at the equator and the poles was the same, ...

Study shows first evidence of an ionospheric interaction with Jupiter's equatorial magnetic field Contrary to past theories, the magnetic equator is surprisingly simple but the ionosphere between the ...

Will the pole shift actually happen? Discover more about Earth’s magnetic poles and how they’ve shifted in the past.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The location of the magnetic equator -- the constantly shifting imaginary line around the Earth where the magnetic field lines are horizontal -- is crucial for navigation and ...

July 23 (UPI) --New data from NASA's InfraRed Telescope Facility suggests Jupiter's equatorial magnetic field is relatively simple. The data also suggests the gas giant's ionosphere, between the ...

New instrumentation and observing techniques, being developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, are helping scientists better understand and predict space weather. New ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. The publication contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The Earth’s magnetic field – known as the ...

It almost seemed impudence. Man, in cosmological terms an all but invisible presence on the surface of the earth, had flung aloft an apparatus which disturbed the order of the heavens themselves, made ...

Illustrative magnetic lines of force (yellow lines) for two views of Mercury. The polar region (red shading) within which the local magnetic field opens to the solar wind, and is not connected to the ...

The sun is governed by a strict rhythm. The magnetic activity of the sun displays a cyclic variation, reaching a maximum ...

The discovery of a dark ribbon of weak hydrogen ion emissions that encircles Jupiter has overturned previous thinking about the giant planet's magnetic equator. The discovery of a dark ribbon of weak ...