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.

Using the models, Beggan said, scientists can determine where the magnetic north pole has moved. Since the 1830s, the magnetic pole has traveled about 1,500 miles north and eastward in the ...

The magnetic north pole, where compass needles point, is about 1,200 miles south and is where geomagnetic field lines are vertical. Earth’s magnetic north is not static. Like an anchorless buoy ...