On Dec. 17, the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and the British Geological Survey (BGS) released an updated version of the World Magnetic Model, a prediction for how Earth's ...

Besides the geographic North Pole — an area that some children worldwide recognize as the home of Santa and all his reindeer ...

They’re digital now, but still rely on the earth’s magnetic north pole. Your smartphone has one of these sensors as well and it’s used in conjunction with inertial sensors and GPS readings ...

If you ever travel back in time to hang out with Homo sapiens around 41,000 years ago, pack some sunscreen – or better yet, a ...

The auroras surrounding the north pole of our solar system's largest planet had some surprises in store when astronomers ...

during which the magnetic North Pole began to shift over Europe and dropped down near the equator, New Scientist reports. During the Laschamps excursion, Earth's magnetic field weakened to about ...

You’ll guess that two of them are true North, pointing to the North Pole, and magnetic North, pointing to the Earth’s north magnetic field, but how about the third? It’s grid North — the ...

Two weeks into their 1,100km attempt at the first unsupported north-to-south ski crossing of Ellesmere Island, Børge Ousland and Vincent Colliard are now well inland. They traveled south over ...

and some of these flights would pass close to the north magnetic pole. Their passengers could be exposed to solar radiation. At the same time, Apollo spacecraft were beginning to fly, and the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed glowing auroras on Jupiter like never before.

But it’s more important than you might think. The Earth acts like a giant bar magnet, with a magnetic north and south pole. Confusingly, these are not in the same place as the geographic north ...