The Solar Orbiter space mission, a joint initiative of the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, has for the first time ...

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A rare geological event occurs every 300,000 years or so: the Earth’s magnetic poles flip. The magnetic poles are the two ...

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Magnetic North Pole slows after decades of swift movement First identified in 1831 by British explorer James Clark Ross in northern Canada, the magnetic north has since drifted thousands of ...

The team captured a coronal mass ejection (CME), which is a massive burst of charged particles and magnetic fields, erupting from the sun's far side, near its north pole.

But since then, the magnetic north has drifted away from Canada and toward Russia, experts said. According to them, the magnetic pole moved 400 kilometres northwest from its 1831 position.

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.

British explorer Sir James Clark Ross discovered the magnetic north pole in 1831 in northern Canada, approximately 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) south of the true North Pole.