The magnetic North Pole was first discovered by Sir James Clark Ross in northern Canada back in 1831. Since then, researchers have gradually been able to track it with more precision, using ground ...

A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation ...

Check your compass again — Earth’s north magnetic pole is moving toward Siberia. Since at least the early 19th century, Earth’s north magnetic pole has been situated in the Canadian Arctic ...

As the time line at right shows, hundreds of times in our planet's history the polarity of the magnetic shield ensheathing the globe has gone from "normal," our current orientation to the north ...

The magnetic north pole is different from the geographic North Pole. The geographic North Pole (or “true north”) is where Earth’s axis meets its surface and is a fixed point on the globe.