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

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

When will the pole shift happen? Researchers say it's definitely a matter of when and not if. The poles have shifted in the past and will likely do so again. When the pole shift occurs, it will happen ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Earth's magnetic North Pole is currently moving toward Russia in a way that British scientists have not seen before. Scientists have been tracking the magnetic North Pole for centuries, telling ...