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 North Pole, often a subject of fascination, lies at the very top of our planet, but its exact location can be difficult to pinpoint on a standard map. Geographically, it is located over the Arctic ...

The geographic North Pole is in a different location than the magnetic North Pole, which is the spot that guides our compasses and other navigation systems.

When large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth and leads to a phenomenon ...

In 2024, researchers transformed readings of an epic upheaval of Earth's magnetic field flipping 41,000 years ago into an ...

The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, shows the shift happened in two phases: 1835–1954: Dams in North ...

The most eye-popping example of dams’ astronomical impact can be seen by analyzing the effects of China’s Three Gorges Dam, ...

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 ...

Over the past 200 years, humans have stored hundreds of billions of liters of water in thousands of dams around the world. In ...

Researchers have found the first new type of magnet in nearly a century. Now, these strange "altermagnets" could help us ...

The Yukon Territory glows—but not with city lights. “Everywhere you look is like a painting” here, with auroras that last for ...

Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...