THE NORTHERN Lights are set to dazzle parts of the UK tonight, with the Met Office issuing a 90 per cent chance alert.

However, it took over 200 years to discover the exact position of the Magnetic North Pole. During John Ross’s 1831 Arctic expedition, James Clark Ross (his nephew) led the team that pinpointed ...

Compass needles in the Northern Hemisphere point toward the magnetic North Pole, although the exact location of it changes from time to time as the contours of Earth’s magnetic field also change.

The vortex appears to be part of a huge filament of solar plasma that the space agency says broke away from the Sun’s surface and is now circling the north pole ... at that exact place every ...

While most are deflected away, some become captured in the Earth's magnetic field, accelerating down towards the north pole into the atmosphere. This is why most of the aurora activity is ...