Everyone knows about the Earth’s poles: north and south ... If you were to poke a metal pole through the Earth at the point of rotation (like we do to a tabletop globe), the poles would be ...

But not long ago someone made the discovery that the North Pole is not the only starting point that satisfies the given ...

Check your compass again – Earth’s north magnetic ... is a fixed point on the globe. The magnetic north pole, where compass needles point, is about 1,200 miles south and is where geomagnetic ...

If all the compasses in the world started pointing south rather than ... shield ensheathing the globe has gone from "normal," our current orientation to the north, to "reversed," and back again.

The line going through London, called Greenwich Meridian, is the starting point at ... The North Pole is 90°N and the South Pole is 90°S. Image caption, The globe above shows the Northern ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Right now ... and its orbit is taking it over Jupiter's north and south pole. During its latest pass over Jupiter's south pole, Juno snapped a series of images ...