The magnetic north pole is not in the same location as the geographic north pole, which is located 1,300 miles away.

Explorers have long trusted compasses to navigate Earth’s land and oceans, using our planet’s global magnetic field as their guide. But what happens when you take a compass beyond Earth — into orbit, ...

Explorers have long trusted compasses to navigate Earth's land and oceans, using our planet's global magnetic field as their guide. But what happens when you take a compass beyond Earth - into ...

The Schuler period was important for the invention of the gyrocompass: Even Albert Einstein was involved in the development ...

Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field ... Scientists knew the animals used this magnetic information as a compass to establish where they ...

Why would hundreds of people trek overnight through the wilderness with nothing but a compass? Because it’s the best feeling ...

Thanks to a clever experiment, American researchers have shown that two-month-old juveniles weighing around 50 grams can learn and recognize both the Earth's magnetic field at a given location ...

The Houston-based company put its Athena spacecraft on the moon just after 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.

The Shakespearean actor had famously played Hamlet on stage at the Old Vic in London, and his magnetic cinematic incarnation ...

Well, true north is simply the North Pole. It's a fixed point on the Earth. Magnetic north is where your compass points based on the Earth's magnetic field. Disabling True North and using magnetic ...

Experiments suggest that an unusual magnetic material can help harness energy from the planet’s rotation. But not everyone is ...