Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

The crew of the Que Sera Sera, a Navy transport plane, at the South Pole on Oct. 31, 1956. The plane's pilot, Lt. Cmdr. Conrad “Gus” Shinn, is third from left.

China uses world’s biggest radio telescope to map lunar south pole water ice The US and China are racing to find and extract water ice from the lunar south pole. Updated: May 08, 2025 08:22 AM EST ...

In the bottom left corner of Mercator’s famous 1569 world map, he included the first known map of the North Pole (which was later published separately under the title Septentrionalium Terrarum).

Earth's geographic North and South poles are at risk of shifting from their position by as much as 90 feet due to climate change. This revelation was made in a study that states that the melting of ...

Chandrayaan-3 landed near the moon's south pole, where rough terrain can make landing difficult. The manned U.S. Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s were closer to the moon's equator.

Sea ice is estimated to cover around 7 per cent of Earth's surface and about 12 per cent of the world's oceans. The lion's share of sea ice is contained within the polar ice packs in the Arctic ...

The researchers on South Africa’s SANAE IV outpost won’t be relieved until December, when temperatures at the South Pole are at their warmest for the year and seasonal ice storms pass.