Earth’s magnetic north pole has shifted away from Canada and closer to Siberia at a rapid pace in recent years. Here’s why.

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 ...

The last full reversal took place approximately 780,000 years ago - leaving some experts to predict another flip is imminent.

North is both 0 and 360 degrees, east is 90 degrees, south 180 and west 270. To take your bearing, hold the compass flat and ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

These long acknowledged "facts" are anything but. We'd bet that you believed all of these lies—until today. Separating fact from fiction As children, we’re constantly told to listen to our parents.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has detected an unusual new variety of plasma phenomenon occurring over Jupiter's north pole.

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

If they had superhero vision, an astronaut would see the people at the South Pole and North Pole standing upside down from ...

Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...

Our planet’s gymnastics routine continues underneath our feet nearly every day, but researchers recently mapped what they say is one of the most “drastic events in the evolution of ...

The compass to which this pen point belonged may have been part of a set of drawing instruments. Due to its different shape and materials, it is probably not from the same compass as MA.335336.