The updated version of the World Magnetic Model was released on Dec. 17, with a new prediction of how the magnetic north pole will shift over the next five years. Here's why it was changed.

In mid-December of 2024, scientists officially updated the World Magnetic Model (WMM), which helps keep track of our planet’s magnetic north and its chaotic and relatively unpredictable movements.

Hoping to keep tabs on the magnetic north's wandering ways, the World Magnetic Model 2025 has been released this week, ...

Earth’s magnetic north is not static. Like an anchorless buoy pushed by ocean waves, the magnetic field is constantly on the move as liquid iron sloshes around in the planet’s outer core.

This image shows magnetic declination, or the angle between magnetic and geographic north, according to the World Magnetic Model released in 2025. Red is magnetic north to the east of geographic ...

In conjunction, they make the World Magnetic Model, that predicts where the pole should be at any time. The model plays a role in the GPS systems we use on a day-to-day basis. “Planes, ...

The magnetic north pole has been drifting away from the Canadian Arctic at a brisk 55 kilometers — about 34 miles — per year, with ramifications for military and civilian travelers.

The World Magnetic Model is updated every five years — most recently in 2015 — because the magnetic field is constantly shifting. In early 2018, ...

The British Geological Survey (BGS) works with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to produce the World Magnetic Model, which predicts where the magnetic pole should be at any ...

NOAA officials announced today the World Magnetic Model (WMM), a representation of Earth’s large-scale magnetic field and… Thursday, June 5, 2025.