As sunspots emerge on the sun's surface close to its equator, their orientations will match the old magnetic field, while sunspots forming closer to the poles will have a magnetic field matching the ...

Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.

As the solar system ... poles flip when north becomes south and south becomes north. The process can take hundreds or even thousands of years. Earth’s magnetic North Pole is shifting due ...

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 pole ...

When you think of the North Pole’s location ... s magnetic field points downward and also how it protects from solar radiation. Image source: koya979 / Adobe It is this exact position that ...

(AP) — A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole ... shadowed craters at the top of of our solar system’s smallest, innermost planet.