NOAA scientists have spent decades tracking how magnetic north wanders, but recent modeling shows a pole moving in ways ...

Every five years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the British Geological Survey (BGS) jointly update the World Magnetic Model (WMM). The newest version shows that the Magnetic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you are using your smartphone to navigate, your system just got a crucial update. Scientists have released a new model tracking ...

The magnetic North Pole, once a slow wanderer circling the Canadian Arctic, has broken into a sprint that has startled the ...

Eventually, the blob of molten material beneath Canada split in two and the stronger one slowly shifted toward the blob beneath Siberia. This spurred the magnetic north pole to slip closer and closer ...

In mid-November 2024, several news outlets published articles claiming the magnetic North Pole was "moving toward Russia." Several Snopes readers wrote to ask us whether the reporting was true and ...

There is quite the debate about who reached the North Pole first, but there is no consensus according to Tara Ocean Foundation. Their website noted, “American explorer Richard E. Byrd led several ...

Marking the North Pole is challenging, as it’s covered by moving sea ice, but its geographic location, also known as the true North Pole, is fixed. By comparison, the magnetic north pole is the ...

(CNN) — If you are using your smartphone to navigate, your system just got a crucial update. Scientists have released a new model tracking the position of the magnetic north pole, revealing that the ...