The planet's magnetic North Pole, where compasses point, has been unexpectedly moving toward Russia. While shifting is not a rare occurrence, the pole is moving both faster and differently than it was ...

Eventually, the blob of molten material beneath Canada split in two and the stronger one slowly shifted toward the blob beneath Siberia. This spurred the magnetic north pole to slip closer and closer ...

NOAA scientists have spent decades tracking how magnetic north wanders, but recent modeling shows a pole moving in ways ...

The magnetic North Pole, once a slow wanderer circling the Canadian Arctic, has broken into a sprint that has startled the ...

Check your compass again – Earth’s north magnetic pole is moving toward Siberia. Since at least the early 19th century, Earth’s north magnetic pole has been situated in the Canadian Arctic and slowly ...

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Learn how some of Earth’s magnetic field flips last longer than others, weakening our defenses against cosmic radiation.

After some 400 years of relative stability, Earth’s North Magnetic Pole has moved nearly 1,100 kilometers out into the Arctic Ocean during the last century and at its present rate could move from ...

The northern lights are expected to drift slightly further south from Earth's magnetic north pole and appear brighter than ...

In mid-November 2024, several news outlets published articles claiming the magnetic North Pole was "moving toward Russia." Several Snopes readers wrote to ask us whether the reporting was true and ...

(CNN) — If you are using your smartphone to navigate, your system just got a crucial update. Scientists have released a new model tracking the position of the magnetic north pole, revealing that the ...