Airliners go just about everywhere in the world, but despite advances in air travel, there's still one place that a ...

Last, due to its location near Earth's magnetic South Pole, Antarctica provides an ideal platform for studying the ionosphere and magnetosphere, with the goal of understanding how solar winds and ...

Earth's magnetic field lines travel in continuous closed loops. (Image credit: VectorMine via Getty Images) And just to make things that little more confusing, what we call the North Magnetic Pole ...

Yet another reason is the strong magnetic field near the South Pole. The magnetic field in Antarctica interferes with aircraft's magnetic navigation systems and makes it more challenging for ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, is the first to venture into a ...

Chris and Julie Ramsey completed an expedition from the magnetic North Pole to the South Pole in an electric SUV to persuade more drivers to adopt electric vehicles.

At the South Pole, there’s a science experiment that makes the Burj Khalifa—the world’s tallest building—look small. It’s called IceCube, and it’s built 2,500 meters down into the ...

South Pole is moving too The same thing is happening with the Earth's magnetic South Pole, which is drifting eastwards over Antarctica. Scientists say the switch happens every 300,000 years.

Nearly two decades ago, “March of the Penguins” crossed a frontier hardly any nonfiction film ever does: not just the Antarctic Circle, but the even more remote $100 million mark at the global ...

In “Antarctica Calling,” it’s a different but no less irresistible urge that fascinates Jacquet: specifically, the almost-magnetic pull that draws the French filmmaker back to the South Pole ...

Last, due to its location near Earth’s magnetic South Pole, Antarctica provides an ideal platform for studying the ionosphere and magnetosphere, with the goal of understanding how solar winds ...