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

The hypothesis which is offered in place of the bridge theory in its original form is simply this: That the life of the earth originated in the region of the north pole, because, in the first ...

Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of accessing mineral wealth buried in the permafrost and opening new trade routes ...

The summer solstice is a moment in space and time during the annual orbit when our tilted planet's Northern Hemisphere points ...

Within just a few million years, the continental plates begin to bend and squish toward each other. Around 200 million years ...

The summer solstice marks the beginning of astronomical summer each year, typically falling between June 20 and June 22. In ...

The summer solstice marks the beginning of astronomical summer each year, typically falling between June 20 and June 22. In meteorology, the official start of the summer season is June 1, marking the ...

The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun's two poles as scientists seek a deeper understanding of Earth's host star, including its magnetic field, its ...

The craft helped solar boffins to discover that Sol’s north and south magnetic poles are both on the southern side of the star, as seen from Earth. Scientists don’t know why and ESA rates the current ...

"Greening" at the planet's poles foreshadows a huge, possibly dangerous shift in the global seafood industry in coming ...

The Sun's polar regions are pretty busy and chaotic places, but our newfound views of its south pole will help predict future solar activity.

On the summer solstice, the Northern Hemisphere leans most directly toward the sun. That means more direct sunlight and the ...