In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.

Observers across eastern North America and much of Europe will have front-row seats to the striking partial solar eclipse on ...

Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

As the National Weather Service explains, the polar vortex is an area of low pressure and cold air that exists over both of Earth’s poles 10 to 30 miles above the surface. The term vortex is used to ...

Ice may be present a few centimeters below the moon's surface in more areas of the lunar polar regions than was ... The results, published in Communications Earth & Environment, are derived ...

"Life on Earth had to adjust to repeated ... Hot states feature temperate vegetation at polar latitudes and desert at equatorial latitudes. The more CO 2 is present, the warmer and wetter biomes ...

The world's northernmost settlement with a permanent population of more than 1,000 is a fascinating town on the island of ...

It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, wrapped tightly around our planet. In fact, the atmosphere consists of multiple layers, with some scientists of the opinion that the atmosphere ...

New findings based on data from India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission suggest that water-ice on the Moon may be present beyond its polar regions ... in Communications Earth and Environment, a Nature ...