Over the past two centuries, humans have quietly nudged the very axis of our planet. As thousands of dams have been built ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.

Finally, the Earth moves a little bit beyond one complete revolution, so the stick again points towards the sun for a second ...

An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the ...

Earth’s magnetic north pole is different from the geographic North Pole. The latter (the so-called “True North”) directly points toward the geographic North Pole, a fixed point on the Earth ...

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the magnetic North Pole over Europe about 41,000 years ago, new University of ...

The magnetic field drives the formation of sunspots, cooler regions on the solar surface that appear as dark blotches. At the ...

The anomalous cold patch, which is confined to a stretch of ocean spanning several degrees north and south of the equator, formed in early June following a monthslong streak of the warmest surface ...

The scientists released two models on December 17: the standard WMM, with a spatial resolution of approximately 2,051 miles (3,300 kilometers) at the equator, and the first high-resolution model ...