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NASA Is Watching a Huge Anomaly Growing in Earth's Magnetic Field

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Giant Colorful Anomaly ABove Earth For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant ...
University of California

UC Berkeley’s Blue and Gold satellites are now flying through Earth’s magnetotail — a first

Launched to Mars in November, NASA’s ESCAPADE probes — operated by UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Lab — are now testing their ...
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NASA warns of a growing South Atlantic Anomaly weakening Earth’s magnetic shield

Earth’s magnetic field acts like a protective cocoon, shielding the planet from harmful charged particles racing in from the Sun and deep space. But over the South Atlantic, that shield has ...
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Part of Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Backward. Scientists Just Figured Out Why.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Due to the movement of iron and nickel in our planet’s ...
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SpaceX launches a pair of NASA satellites to probe the origins of space weather

Two NASA satellites rocketed into orbit from California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, commencing a $170 million mission to study a phenomenon of space physics that has eluded ...
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NASA reveals Earth has a 2 million kilometer tail, and it could be hiding a huge cosmic secret!

It turns out Earth isn’t just spinning through space; we’ve also got a hidden feature many people don’t know about—a tail. A recent NASA study uncovered that our planet has a magnetic tail that ...