There, according to a new report, they may be forming a protective bubble around Earth’s atmosphere. The discovery comes from the Van Allen Probes —two spacecraft, launched in 2012, that ...

The Earth’s tropical belt—the area around the equator—is also expanding. This zone normally has strong winds, storms, and lots of cloud cover. But now that area is changing.

In other words, the Earth acts like a giant bar magnet, with force fields that extend from its core, reaching about 36,000 miles into space, flowing between Earth's magnetic South and North poles.

An encounter with a cold cloud of gas and dust could have caused our planet's "protective giant bubble" to draw back. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Earth already has its own protective bubble, a magnetosphere stretched by powerful solar winds. The artificial bubble that NASA found is an accident, an unintended result of the interplay between ...

At the heart of the Earth is a solid inner core, two thirds of the size of the moon, made mainly of iron. At 5,700°C, this iron is as hot as the Sun's surface, but the crushing pressure caused by ...

This is just one theory of how the Moon formed. Since then, our planet and its only natural satellite have been inseparable since. A new study suggests that the Earth and Moon's relationship runs ...

Our planet's protective magnetic bubble may not be as protective as scientists had thought. Small breaks in Earth's magnetic field almost continuously let in the solar wind — the stream of ...