He was recently part of a 12-person team that was the first to ever drive wheeled vehicles to the North Pole as part of a ...

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

The mass of extremely warm air threw the freezing polar vortex out of balance, shoving it off its North Pole axis so forcefully that it in effect split in two, as if growing a pair of legs: one ...

That’s why it took scientists by surprise when dozens of lightning strikes were detected within 300 nautical miles of the North Pole this past weekend. In fact, it was so unusual that it was ...

A rare geological event occurs every 300,000 years or so: the Earth’s magnetic poles flip. The magnetic poles are the two ...

Earth leaks roughly 47 terawatts of heat into space, a trickle compared with the Sun’s input yet vital for plate tectonics, volcanoes, and the magnetic field. This outward flow is usually thought to ...

The 2025 summer solstice takes place on June 20, heralding the onset of astronomical summer and the longest day of the year.

At the North Pole, the sun does not set on the summer solstice, while at the South Pole, the sun does not rise. Editor's note: This article was updated on June 20 to mark the beginning of the ...

Regardless of Musk's ambitions, leaving Planet Simple demands more than a rocket: We need a paradigm shift in how we understand our relationship with complex systems.

In June 1954, Lt. Arnold Weber ejected from his F-86D plane as it flew above North Dakota, 35,000 feet in the air. The plane crashed at a farm near Menoken, N.D. The pilot survived and a passerby ...

These initial observations are only a small part of what Solar Orbiter is set to deliver. The full dataset from this pole-to-pole journey will arrive on Earth by October 2025. Over time, all ten of ...

Planet Earth is a 2006 British television series produced by the BBC Natural History Unit. Five years in the making, it was the most expensive nature documentary series ever commissioned by the BBC ...