ESA’s Swarm mission reveals the South Atlantic Anomaly has expanded by half the size of Europe since 2014, exposing ...

Moroccan rocks reveal that Earth’s magnetic field once changed fast but followed a hidden order, helping scientists map ...

Per the ESA, this phenomenon can be best explained by strange behaviors far within the Earth at the boundary where the ...

Satellite data reveal that a weak region in Earth's magnetic field has grown by an area roughly half the size of continental ...

Earth’s magnetic field protects the planet from space weather like cosmic radiation and charged particles from the Sun. The ...

The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) is a particularly weak region of Earth’s magnetic field that can cause satellites to ...

Learn about the growth of the South Atlantic Anomaly, a region where Earth's magnetic field has significantly weakened.

Scientists made these observations using data from the European Space Agency’s Swarm mission, which relies on three identical ...

The South Atlantic Anomaly, a strange dip in the Earth's magnetic field, has grown rapidly over the last eleven years, new ...

The weak spot, known as the South Atlantic Anomaly, was identified in the 19th century and expanded in recent years.

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed. What followed was a cascade of environmental and biological changes that ...