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 ...

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

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.

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

A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles.

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 ...

Earth's Magnetic North Pole Officially Has A New Position Just before Christmas, let's hope this doesn't screw up the deliveries of the North Pole's most famous resident.

Planet Earth Climate change Large patch of the Atlantic Ocean near the equator has been cooling at record speeds — and scientists can't figure out why News By Sharmila Kuthunur published 28 ...

Unlike the geographic North Pole, which marks a fixed location, the magnetic north pole’s position is determined by Earth’s magnetic field, which is in constant motion.