Mars doesn’t have magnetic poles like Earth does, but that doesn’t stop the red planet from experiencing the night sky ...

Such is the case with the Earth's magnetic field. Every so often, our planet's magnetic poles reverse polarity (see When Compasses Point South). Compass needles have always pointed north ...

These ghostly glows are most visible near the magnetic poles. But thanks to increasing solar activity, they're now appearing farther south and more frequently than usual. Whether you're planning a ...

This magnetic field has a north and south orientation, which currently roughly aligns with Earth’s North and South poles. Those are the sites where the field is the strongest, which is why ...

Magnetic pole flips happen randomly, sometimes taking 10,000 to 50 million years. The last full reversal, the Brunhes–Matuyama event, occurred 780,000 years ago. Around 41,000 years ago ...

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefitted from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the magnetic North Pole over Europe about 41,000 years ago, new University of ...