Earth’s magnetic halo is generated in its core of molten nickel-iron alloy. Currents driven by Earth’s rotation, like a dynamo, spread the magnetic field far into the surrounding space. Billions of...

A few times a day, a gigantic explosion shakes the Earth's magnetic shield, triggering a chain of events that lights up the polar skies with dazzling auroras. These explosions are substorms, and ho...

Magnetic reconnection is the process whereby magnetic field lines from different magnetic domains are spliced to one another, changing their patterns of connectivity with respect to the sources. It...

It has been proposed recently that a description of the magnetosphere as a system in a state of self-organized criticality would be fruitful for understanding ~and predicting! the global response ...

During the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn't believe in. A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth to the sun 9...