SpaceX launched the private Fram2 mission Monday (March 31), sending a crew of four spaceflight rookies into an orbit never ...

After reading about Earth’s magnetic north pole shifting, dive into the story of Roald Amundsen, the first man to reach the South Pole and the first to fly over the North Pole. Then, view 27 ...

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 ...

When a magnet repels, it pushes another magnet away. A magnet has opposite ends called a north pole and a south pole. Between the poles is a magnetic force that we can’t see. This is a non ...

Earth’s magnetic field is not fixed—it drifts ... During flips, Earth can develop multiple north and south poles, even reaching the equator. This unpredictable behavior disrupts geomagnetic ...

If you bring a north pole and a south pole together, they will attract. Earth's core contains liquid iron which moves around. Iron is magnetic so the liquid iron causes Earth to have a magnetic field.

Earth's magnetic field is what protects our planet from harmful space radiation. However, our protective shield might soon go into a transformation that could threaten the lives on Earth.

Without the effects caused by the spinning Earth, the magnetic fields generated within the liquid core would cancel one another out and result in no distinct north or south magnetic poles.