The North Pole Dome has long been studied as a site that might show the earliest signs of life forming on the planet. The Earth formed an estimated 4.5 billion years ago but there has been little ...

The first day of spring, or the vernal equinox, is determined by where the Earth is in its orbit around ... the summer solstice is when the North Pole tilts toward the sun and the winter solstice ...

Like bar magnets, Earth has a north magnetic pole and a south magnetic pole. The lines of Earth’s magnetic field point from one pole to the other. When the solar wind approaches Earth ...

They found this out by applying techniques used to measure what ice sheets on Earth do to its surface ... including a seemingly cold north pole and the recently volcanically active equatorial ...

The impact crater could be linked to the origins of life on Earth. The discovery of a massive ... a 62-mile-wide area now called North Pole Dome, the scientists said. The shatter cones offer ...

Chun Wang, 42, often lives in the remote Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard but flies somewhere nearly every other day on what he says is a personal quest to visit each of Earth's 249 officially ...

the Arctic Circle (the North Pole) the Antarctic Circle ... longitude.Lines of latitude run around the Earth like imaginary hoops and have numbers to show how many degrees north or south they ...

Content continues below As our slanted homeworld travels along its orbit, with its north pole always pointed ... These four views of Earth from satellites in space show our planet, from left ...

According to the data, the northern lights are more likely to show up in March ... According to Dr. Schmoll, the Earth's ...

Although North and South America are often thought of ... Below, documentarian Mike Gunton, the show’s executive producer, joins us to discuss his experience encountering the Americas as a ...

As the Northern Hemisphere welcomes spring today, the Southern Hemisphere is marked with the first day of autumn.

Reader Jayant Bhalerao, a college physics instructor, found the story useful in class: “We will share it with our students, so that they can appreciate how ...