If you’ve ever used your phone’s built-in compass and felt something was off, you’re likely not imagining it. After testing ...

On Earth, the magnetic field of our planet points a compass north, but in space, things are a bit more complicated. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

When a magnetic compass points north it is aligning itself with Earth's magnetic field and points to the Magnetic North Pole, not the Geographic North Pole, which is actually about 310 miles (500 ...

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There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis ...

On Earth, we have an incredibly useful of navigating our way around: a magnetized needle (suspended in a liquid or inside a compass) will align itself with our planet's magnetic field, and point ...

Sushkov’s experiments use the spins of atoms as miniature compass needles that can sense other quantum particles through their magnetic influence. Researchers have long leveraged this phenomenon, ...

Magnetic north has never sat still. In the last hundred years or so, the direction in which our compasses steadfastly point has lumbered ever northward, driven by Earth's churning liquid outer ...

The Space Weather Prediction Center issued a “severe” geomagnetic storm watch on Sunday, meaning the auroras will be visible ...

For the first time in nearly a century, physicists have identified a brand new type of magnetic material. Crack open a physics textbook and you may read that scientists classify magnetic materials ...