Where did the moon's magnetism go? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades, ever since orbiting spacecraft ...

A combination of a dynamo-generated magnetic field and massive impacts could explain the highly magnetized rocks in some ...

There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis suggested that in the first billion years, when the Moon was covered in molten ...

A massive impact may have sent a shockwave through the moon, jolting rocks just as a magnetic spike peaked and leaving behind ...

There should be rocks showing both impact shock and high magnetism located near the lunar South Pole on the far side of the ...

which keeps the liquid metal moving through the magnetic field. The so-called Coriolis force also plays a role in sustaining the geomagnetic dynamo. Our planet's spinning motion causes the moving ...

The Earth's magnetic field is created deep within our planet's outer core through a complex, self-sustaining interaction known as the "geomagnetic dynamo" (see What Drives Earth's Magnetic Field?).

When set spinning, the setup mimics the roiling liquid iron in the Earth’s outer core, which forms electrical currents that generate the magnetic field in a process called a dynamo. His team ...

Why is the earth a magnet? The best answer at present is that the slow flow of matter in its fluid core generates electric currents, which in turn set up a magnetic field By Walter M. Elsasser ...