Auroras have long mystified humanity. Now that we know what they are and why they happen, we can better predict how best to ...

"The current behavior of magnetic north is something that we have never observed before." For decades, scientists have been tracking the shift in Earth's magnetic north pole away from Canada and ...

A leading scholar in World Politics, Professor Mathias Albert will deliver a lecture titled “The Challenges of ‘Planetary’ Science: World Social Sciences, Natural Earth System Sciences — and a View ...

This collection of Funky Facts from Go Jetters focuses on Antarctica, the coldest, windiest continent on Earth ... draw or write a diary entry, imagining they are on a Polar expedition to the ...

The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

Standing near the top of a 4,000-foot ridge above Chambers Cove, geologist Jennifer Bauer turns away from the 30-degree slope we're climbing and looks out over the valley peeking through the trees ...

At new phase, you can't see the moon from Earth because the ... to a point just west of north to Achernar. Sirius is above and to the right of Betelgeuse, and one can draw a line between them ...

By cruising under the Arctic ice pack, it was also the first vessel to cross the North Pole. Following the success of the nuclear ... Some of the pumps used to draw waste gas from the HRE “made a ...

distinct from the geographic North Pole, is the point where Earth’s magnetic field lines converge. NASA via Rawpixel For decades, Earth’s magnetic north pole has been slowly drifting across the Arctic ...

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.