Named Fram2, the three-to-five-day mission will not only feature the first flyovers of poles but will also include several ...

NASA proclaimed 2024 to be “Heliophysics Big Year,” and with good reason. Heliophysics is the study of the sun, and 2024 gave ...

Earth is similar to a magnet bar and the north and south poles represent the two sides. The invisible magnetic field lines encircle the planet between the North and the South. This magnetic field ...

SpaceX is planning a launch as early as Monday evening. If successful, it will mark the first crewed mission to polar orbit ...

Once thought a block of worthless ice, this continent is in fact incredibly valuable and plays a key role in stabilizing Earth’s climate.

SpaceX launched four people into space Monday evening on a first-ever human mission to orbit Earth's polar regions. If ...

The crew will observe Earth's polar regions 430 kilometers above the surface, allowing the Crew Dragon Resilience to travel ...

It will carry a crew of four into a 90-degree orbit that will send them over both the North and South Poles. The Fram2 crew will attempt to grow oyster mushrooms in microgravity as part of an ...

"As we orbit around the North and South poles for three to five days, it's kind of that same blizzard experience," he told journalists during a Friday briefing on X. "We've got four people locked ...

Malta-based investor Chun Wang is financing the mission, which was dubbed Fram2 after a Norwegian ship that carried key expeditions to the North and South poles around the turn of the 20th century.