The updated version of the World Magnetic Model was released on Dec. 17, with a new prediction of how the magnetic north pole will shift over the next five years. Here's why it was changed.

The poles can flip over the course of hundreds or thousands of years, and this can happen at random, with intervals ranging anywhere from 10,000 years to 50 million years or more. Around 41,000 years ...

This spurred the magnetic north pole to slip closer and closer to Siberia, where the magnetic intensity was stronger. In 2017, the magnetic north pole fell within 240 miles of the geographic north ...

The uneasy truce between the nuclear-armed North and the US-allied South remains one of the most vexing security concerns for the world.

U.S. or British—which set of Virgin Islands is right for you? Much like the United States and Britain, the USVI and BVI are similar but different in the most nuanced ways. Here are some tips for ...

Artifacts from the Bronze Age have revealed an intense historical magnetic anomaly in the Middle East. Could a similar ...

For 540 million years, Earth’s magnetic field has correlated with fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen, according to a newly released study.