Auroras are possible over the U.S. tonight (March 25) as a "moderate" geomagnetic storm hits Earth. The Northern Lights could ...

Every few hundred thousand years, Earth’s magnetic poles flip, turning north into south and south into north. These geomagnetic reversals can take thousands of years, but shorter disruptions ...

Earth’s magnetic poles are constantly on the move, but they haven’t drifted far enough to actually flip in the modern age. Researchers know that Earth’s poles have flipped in the past ...

From time to time, every few hundred thousand years or so, the Earth's magnetic poles have been known to “flip” – but why?

At present, the north magnetic pole is headed for Russia ... of the poles may be hinting at an upcoming polar flip. Earth’s poles have flipped many times in the past, and we may already be ...

Magnetic pole flips happen randomly, sometimes taking 10,000 to 50 million years. The last full reversal, the Brunhes–Matuyama event, occurred 780,000 years ago. Around 41,000 years ago ...

Recent observations reveal that Earth's magnetic poles are gradually drifting. Until the 1990s, the North Pole moved at about 15 kilometers per year. However, the rate has accelerated to 55 ...

This video shows what will happen when Earth's magnetic poles flip. Following is a transcript of the video. Did you know that Earth has two N orth Poles? There's the geographic North Pole ...

The planet's magnetic North Pole, where compasses point, has been unexpectedly moving toward Russia. While shifting is not a rare occurrence, the pole is moving both faster and differently than it ...

Have you ever played with a magnet and stuck it in a sandy wash? It will pick up lots of black stuff. Some call it black sand; some might think ...