Our phones have already adjusted to the latest shift in the Earth's magnetic pole position, which appears to be constantly ...

and why doesn’t magnetic north stay in one place? This image shows magnetic declination, or the angle between magnetic and geographic north, according to the World Magnetic Model released in 2025.

Earth’s magnetic north is not static. Like an anchorless buoy pushed by ocean waves, the magnetic field is constantly on the move as liquid iron sloshes around in the planet’s outer core.

more It’s important to know the difference between the magnetic north pole and the geographic north pole. The geographic north pole doesn’t move, and if we’re putting things in the simplest ...

Sometimes here at Hackaday we bring you stories from slightly outside our world of tech, because they have an interesting angle ... are true North, pointing to the North Pole, and magnetic ...

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.

Unlike the geographic North Pole, which marks a fixed location, the magnetic north pole’s position ... though the time between flips has varied greatly — from 5,000 years to as much as 50 ...