The geographic North Pole (or “true north”) is where Earth’s axis meets its surface and is a fixed point on the globe. The magnetic north pole, where compass needles point, is about 1,200 ...

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 ...

It's time to recalibrate the navigation systems on ships, airplanes, as the position of the magnetic North Pole is officially being changed, continuing its shift away from Canada and towards Siberia.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles ...

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.