An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the Earth.

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

Scientists have managed to turn Laschamps event, or the cosmic event when Earth's magnetic poles switched places – the North ...

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 ...