So, even if you’re standing in the Southern Hemisphere, your compass needle will always point north. Beyond the outer edges of the magnetosphere, however, things get a little more complicated.

Outer Wilds is a non-violent, first-person exploration-puzzle game set in a solar system that’s sprinkled with delightful mysteries. Its secrets are scattered among a whirling orrery of planets ...

And pushing a collision scenario further into the past, to hide this evidence, runs into the problem of the ages of stars: the outer ring of stars is quite blue in color, suggesting a younger age ...

This is the crustal magnetic field, Espley said — rocks on the outer crust that still hold evidence of the planet's old geodynamo. Of all the planets in the solar system, a compass is most ...