The Earth’s magnetic north pole is shifting rapidly – so what will happen to the northern lights? As the Earth's magnetic north pole heads towards Siberia, concerns have been raised that the ...

Besides the geographic North Pole — an area that some children worldwide recognize as the home of Santa and all his reindeer — the Earth also has a magnetic North Pole. These magnetic poles ...

"The current behaviour of magnetic north is something that we have never observed before," says global geomagnetic field modeller William Brown, from BGS. "Magnetic north has been moving slowly ...

A spacecraft has sent back some of the most detailed and breathtaking images of Mercury's north pole, shedding new light on the mysterious, shadowy regions of the small planet closest to the Sun.