Learn how some of Earth’s magnetic field flips last longer than others, weakening our defenses against cosmic radiation.

The magnetic North Pole, once a slow wanderer circling the Canadian Arctic, has broken into a sprint that has startled the ...

When will the pole shift happen? Researchers say it's definitely a matter of when and not if. The poles have shifted in the past and will likely do so again. When the pole shift occurs, it will happen ...

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the magnetic North Pole over Europe about 41,000 years ago, new University of ...

The Earth's magnetic North Pole is currently moving toward Russia in a way that British scientists have not seen before. Scientists have been tracking the magnetic North Pole for centuries, telling ...

Scientists explain why there’s no merit to recent claims blaming Earth’s magnetic poles for global warming—and what those geomagnetic shifts really mean. A visualization of the magnetic lines of force ...