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 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 ...

Earth's magnetic poles are shifting unpredictably, with rapid drifts and weakening fields raising questions about a possible future reversal and its global effects.

Recent observations reveal that Earth's magnetic poles are gradually drifting. Until the 1990s, the North Pole moved at about 15 kilometers per year. However, the rate has accelerated to 55 ...

But in a new soundscape from the ESA, it sure sounds like it. About every 450,000 years, Earth's magnetic poles flip. North becomes south and vice versa in a phenomenon called geomagnetic reversal.

Could the expected solar flares bring a greater chance of seeing the northern lights? Sophia Herod takes a look.

The sun is getting ready to flip. Every 11 or so years, the sun undergoes an epic transformation: its magnetic poles reverse.

Check your compass again — Earth’s north magnetic pole ... Some speculate that this could presage a flip of the north and south magnetic poles, but scientists say there’s no evidence that ...

By comparison, the magnetic north pole is the northernmost convergence point in Earth’s magnetic field ... Scientists have estimated that this polar flip, which can take thousands of years ...

said Earth.com. One of the main things researchers are monitoring is the potential for a full magnetic reversal, during which the North and South Poles would flip entirely. While this has occurred ...

"In short, there is no specific 'moment' in which the sun's poles flip," French said. "It's not like the Earth, where the flip is measured by the migration of the North/South pole." It generally ...