The updated version of the World Magnetic Model was released on Dec. 17, with a new prediction of how the magnetic north pole ...

At the end of this year, the new World Magnetic Model for 2020 through 2025 will be released, Chulliat told Live Science.This map shows the location of the north magnetic pole (the white star) and ...

However, the magnetic north pole is moving faster than normal resulting in a new out of cycle release for the WMM. Normally, new WMM maps are released every five years, and the next release was ...

But Robinson says he’s been on plenty of flights to Asia where people are surprised to hear the pilot say they’ll be flying over the North Pole. When looking at a globe instead of a flat map ...

The rate of the North Pole's motion, however, has been fast enough that the agencies who produce the model aren't comfortable with waiting for the current model expiration at the end of 2019.

The North Pole is a land of extremes. Because of the Earth's tilted axis as it revolves around the sun, sunlight is either constant or not present at all depending on the season, according to ...

Canadian researchers are taking to the High Arctic skies to begin gathering definitive data on who owns the North Pole. A specially equipped DC-3 will begin flying from airstrips on Ellesmere ...

If you said the North Pole, you probably wouldn’t be alone. Strictly speaking, ... Mercator’s world map, from 1569, was almost certainly a defining moment in north-up map-making.

It's time to recalibrate the navigation systems on ships, airplanes, and (given the time of year) Santa's sleigh: the ...

Now, for the first time, his full 10-by-10-foot world map has been assembled and digitized, Co.Design reports. ... which depicts the flattened globe with the North Pole at its center.