Have you ever played with a magnet and stuck it in a sandy wash? It will pick up lots of black stuff. Some call it black sand; some might think ...

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost captured mesmerizing footage of Earth "in the rearview mirror." That clip was quickly followed up by images of the Moon's south pole, complete with countless of its ...

FARGO — Recent cold weather has brought questions about where might be the coldest place on Earth. Without question ... The American station at the South Pole, through decades of measurement ...

NASA's newest space telescope has blasted off to map the entire sky like never before. Launched Tuesday night from California ...

depicts a slightly stretched Earth. The mirror image of Africa is visible beneath wispy clouds, and condensation swirls around the planet's South Pole. X-37B floats in the upper portion of the ...

The picture, which is grainy and yellow-hued like an old-school photograph, depicts a slightly stretched Earth. The mirror image of Africa is visible beneath wispy clouds, and condensation swirls ...

Glacial periods are separated by warmer interglacial periods, when ice sheets retreat toward the poles. Earth is currently in an interglacial period, with the last glacial period having peaked around ...

The radiation-hardened technology will get its first test in an upcoming mission to the lunar south pole. Later this month ... and the link back to Earth, starting with the Apollo program.

Essentially, the polar vortex is a mass of freezing air surrounding the poles of the Earth, and when it weakens it can lead to the jet streams becoming less stable, thus allowing frosty Arctic ...

By the time you get to the North or South poles, your spin is very slow indeed — it takes an entire day to spin in place. Space agencies love to take advantage of Earth's spin. If they're ...

A polar vortex collapse is expected over the next two weeks, causing extreme winter weather and travel disruption across North America. The weather phenomenon is expected to develop in mid-March ...