Have you ever played with a magnet and stuck it in a sandy wash? It will pick up lots of black stuff. Some call it black sand; some might think ...

Every few hundred thousand years, Earth’s magnetic poles flip, turning north into south and south into north. These geomagnetic reversals can take thousands of years, but shorter disruptions ...

One theory suggests superplumes could be leftovers from Theia, the Mars-sized protoplanet that formed the Moon after colliding with Earth. 'James Webb killer is here': NASA’s SPHEREx will scan ...

The “city under the ice” revealed a hidden chapter of the Cold War era and gave rise to a new field of scientific inquiry. As ice melt accelerates, its story isn’t over yet.

Magnetite, like the name implies, is magnetic. Other magnetic minerals include pyrrhotite and ilmenite. Lodestone is a name given to magnetite that has polarity. Really, all magnetite has polarity ...

While it’s more commonly seen closer to the Arctic Circle, scientists predict that 2025 could be another year of frequent and intense auroras across Europe as the Sun’s magnetic poles flip – part of ...