New research is turning a long‑standing hunch about sea turtles into a detailed map of how these animals read the planet ...

A new study details the loggerheads’ ability to “map” their position by using the Earth’s magnetic field, with possible ...

It might sound like something out of a Hollywood disaster movie, but the world's magnetic northern pole has changed. The magnetic north pole is the point that compasses point to as north and is ...

Loggerhead turtles are able to sense Earth's magnetic field in two ways, but it wasn't clear which sense the animals use to ...

New research is revealing that baby sea turtles do not simply drift on ocean currents during their first epic journey.

Unlike the geographic North Pole, which stays put at the top of the globe, the North Magnetic Pole moves, and it historically does this at a fairly steady rate. Lately, it’s moved at about 31 miles ...

Now that the government shutdown is over, federal agencies have finally released an early edition of the World Magnetic Model, almost a full year before the next one was scheduled to be released, the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Satellites have provided a detailed view of the small but vitally important magnetic signals ...

Astronomers have captured the first view of polarized light and the magnetic fields that surround Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milly Way. The new EHT ...

Summary: The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world’s most powerful solar telescope, operated by the NSF National Solar Observatory (NSO), achieved a major ...

Biologists have identified, for the first time, that mature reed warblers are able to detect the declination from magnetic north, and use the scale of the declination or change from true north to ...