Chile, Argentina, the U.K., Norway, Australia, New Zealand and France—maintain territorial claims on the continent.

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

The updated version of the World Magnetic Model was released on Dec. 17, with a new prediction of how the magnetic north pole will shift over the next five years. Here's why it was changed.

Gabriel Boric’s trip to the pole, which his office called the first by a Latin American president, comes amid rising ...

Artwork: Earth's magnetic field is generated in its ... that's responsible for the change in the position of the pole is actually further south," Dr Livermore said. "There's also a timing issue.

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.

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 ...