The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury’s night side before ...

Data from NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was used to create a water distribution map of the area near the moon's south pole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Firefighters are battling to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area that have killed five people, ravaged ...

The polar vortex of ultra-cold air usually spins around the North Pole, but it sometimes plunges south into the US, Europe ...

Chile’s President Gabriel Boric travelled to Antarctica’s South Pole on Friday, a place where no other Latin American ...

Arne-Kristian Teigland and Kristin Harila have both ended their Hercules Inlet speed attempts. Meanwhile, Youngmi Kim has ...

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the British Geological Survey announced the Magnetic North Pole has a new position. Global geomagnetic field modeler William Brown ...

The international date line is the "line" that runs through the middle of the Pacific Ocean about 180 degrees longitude from ...

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Kiribati is the first country in the world to celebrate 2025. The last country to issue in the new year will the Baker Island and Howland Island.

A South Korean court issued warrants Tuesday to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol and search his office and residence ...