“The Laschamps Excursion was the last time the magnetic poles flipped,” explained Chris Turney, co-lead author of a 2021 study investigating this transformative event. “They swapped places ...

Throughout Earth's history, our planet has experienced many magnetic pole reversals, often referred to as geomagnetic reversals. These events have left identifiable imprints in the geological ...

The update is actually an “out-of-cycle” event, meaning that it ... the planet and the (geographic) North Pole, doesn’t actually point at the north magnetic pole at all.

Magnetic pole flips happen randomly, sometimes taking 10,000 to 50 million years. The last full reversal, the Brunhes–Matuyama event, occurred 780,000 years ago. Around 41,000 years ago ...

The Earth's magnetic North Pole is moving east, which is interesting but not unusual. What's unusual is how fast it is moving. At 55 kilometres a year, the pole is racing east at a pace faster ...

A magnet has opposite ends called a north pole and a south pole. Between the poles is a magnetic force that we can’t see. This is a non-contact force. The area around the magnet that is affected ...