Besides the geographic North Pole — an area that some children worldwide recognize as the home of Santa and all his reindeer ...

But sometimes, Earth doesn't always just have a single magnetic North and South Pole. Evidence suggests that, for hundreds to thousands of years at a time, our planet has had four, six ...

would spell doom for humanity’s future on Earth. A new study analyzes the possibility of such a collapse by creating models surrounding four of these pillars: the West Antarctic Ice Sheet ...

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 ...

A magnetic field is invisible ... of a plotting compass points to the south pole of the magnet. The behaviour of a compass shows that the Earth has a magnetic field. The Earth's core, which ...

But it’s more important than you might think. The Earth acts like a giant bar magnet, with a magnetic north and south pole. Confusingly, these are not in the same place as the geographic north ...