Huge hot blobs inside Earth may have made its magnetic field wonky

Huge hot blobs inside Earth may have made its magnetic field wonky

• Earth’s magnetic field extends tens of thousands of kilometres into spaceGetty Images/iStockphoto Earth’s magnetic field extends tens of thousands of kilometres into space Getty

Science · February 13, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 288 words