The North Pole is moving, and the shutdown means we aren’t keeping up. The unpredictable shift in Earth’s magnetic field has forced researchers to update the model that aids global navigation.

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.

Earth’s north magnetic pole has been drifting so fast in the last few decades that scientists say that past estimates are no longer accurate enough for precise navigation. On Monday, they ...

Earth's magnetic north pole keeps moving.; In the past few years, it has moved so much that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued an early update to its World Magnetic Model ...

The magnetic north pole is wandering about 34 miles (55 kilometers) a year. It crossed the international date line in 2017, and is leaving the Canadian Arctic on its way to Siberia.

Something strange is happening to our planet. Around the year 2000, the North rotational pole started migrating eastward at a vigorous clip. Now, ...

The North Pole is gradually shifting, and the model used to keep track is not updating because of the government shutdown. Nature reports the Earth's magnetic pole is slowly moving from Canada ...

British explorer Sir James Clark Ross discovered the magnetic north pole in 1831 in northern Canada, approximately 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) south of the true North Pole.