About 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field briefly flipped in what is known as the Laschamp event. Now, a group of scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Swarm mission have ...

One of the reasons that Earth is able to support life is an important property of the planet we can't usually see: its magnetic field. This field protects the planet from harmful space radiation as ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Watch: The sound of Earth's magnetic field Earth’s magnetic field keeps us alive by protecting the inhabitants of our planet from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Magnetic field data collected by ESA's Swarm satellites and other sources has been coverted into these frightening sounds. The ...

Earth is a wonderful place still, and that’s possible thanks to a lot of things going just right. One of the most important such things is the planet’s magnetic field, an invisible force that keeps us ...

The magnetic field that surrounds Earth can’t normally be seen or heard — but scientists at the Technical University of Denmark, working with the European Space Agency, have taken magnetic signals ...

Put horror movies and games aside for a few minutes to listen to something truly unsettling this Halloween season. The European Space Agency has released audio of what our planet's magnetic field ...

Magnetic invisibility sounds simple in theory. Place the right materials around an object and magnetic fields flow around it as if nothing were there. Reality has been far messier. For nearly two ...