The country supports some of the world’s most important satellites. But experts worry about its proximity to Russia.

Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet ...

have uncovered a massive abandoned military base beneath the North Pole in Greenland. This discovery happened while they were studying polar ice layers with a high-precision radar, and they ...

Blizzard conditions have shut down roadways and travel is not recommended in many areas of western and northwestern Iowa this ...

Without assistance from icebreakers ... Due to global warming, melting Arctic ice is opening new areas around the North Pole for potential exploitation of minerals and oil or for more efficient ...

The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition team leaves St. John's, Newfoundland on the steamship Proteus for Ellesmere Island (500 miles south of the North Pole ... that the pack ice is too rough to ...

The mountain range has been dubbed the “third pole” because of the extraordinary water resources it holds, she noted. Despite these vast freshwater reserves, it may already be too late to save them ...

The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...