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 ...

When you think of some of the eeriest sounds on Earth, you'll probably think of warning sirens, piercing screams, or even John Carpenter's Halloween theme — but it turns out that Mars has its share of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 41,000 years ago, the Earth’s magnetic field suddenly flipped. Positive became negative, and negative became positive. Using ...

In the spirit of Halloween, NASA created an online playlist of seriously scary sounds recorded in outer space. The things that go bump in the night in space are much creepier than those found on Earth ...

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This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Horror movies are a tennis match between the haunting absence of sound and ...

In this video, we're going to send you to each of the planets in the Solar System, starting with the smallest world and ending with the enormous gas giants. Let's see if anyone can hear you scream.