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A storm as ferocious as the one of 12,350 BC would likely cause complete mayhem if it were to strike Earth and its ...

A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years.

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

Earth's magnetic field was so weak it almost disappeared. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, complex life emerged.

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This exciting discovery opens up new possibilities for auroral research and confirms that auroras could be visible to future ...