Earth's protective magnetic shield has a weak spot, the South Atlantic Anomaly, which is expanding and splitting. This anomaly, driven by changes in E ...

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

Far above the South Atlantic, a strange weakness in Earth’s magnetic armor is widening and slowly changing shape, forcing ...

NASA tracks the growing South Atlantic Anomaly, revealing weak magnetic fields, potential satellite risks and some insights into Earth’s core dynamics and magnetic field reversals.

NASA has been keeping a close eye on a peculiar and expanding anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field, stretching over the South ...

(a) IGRF model magnetic field intensity of 2024-01in the SAA. (b) CSES/HEPP-L measured 2–10 MeV proton fluxes difference (2024-01 minus 2019-01) in the SAA region. (c) NOAA/MEPED p5-90 measured ...

In 2026, a first-of-its-kind spacecraft—launched on a rocket dropped out of a plane—will attempt to save NASA’s Swift observatory from a fiery demise. Yes, really.

For the first time in a decade, the country avoided landfall, thanks to an atmospheric anomaly. But this hurricane season was ...

As four elite South African boys’ schools negotiate over their fate of their exclusive Rhodes Scholarships, a former scholar argues it’s time to end this outdated privilege. Tracing back to Cecil ...

A South Carolina Senate committee voted 3-2, with four Republican senators abstaining, not to advance a near-total abortion ban.

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