In a world that so often encourages women to play it safe, a young Kuwaiti woman named Yasmeen Almane dared to do the un ...

Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.

Let's start with the North Pole you're probably thinking of: the Geographic North Pole, also known as the Terrestrial North Pole. This is literally the top of the Earth, the northernmost point on ...

Runners are preparing for the Chicago Marathon later this year, but one resident has her sights set much, much further north.

However, for the past 30 years, the magnetic north pole has been shifting rapidly north. In 1990, it increased the pace of its shift from 9.3 miles per year to 34.2 miles per year, which was ...

Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of ...

When you think of the North Pole’s location, you probably imagine it is the centermost point at the top of our planet. However, the North Magnetic Pole has actually been moving gradually since ...

As for the rest of the time, legend has it that Santa Claus resides at the North Pole where he, his wife, Mrs. Claus, and an army of elves spend the other 364 days making the toys that fill his ...

The thick ice that covers the Arctic Ocean at the North Pole has melted, leaving a mile-wide stretch of water at the top of the world. North Pole visitor Malcolm McKenna, a paleontologist at the ...

Magnetic north versus ‘true north’ At the top of the world in the middle of the Arctic Ocean lies the geographic North Pole, the point where all the lines of longitude that curve around Earth ...

Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.