Sail to the North Pole in style aboard Le Commandant Charcot, currently the world’s only passenger vessel able to reach the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Images of a scientific observation buoy floating in what appeared to be an Arctic lake near the North Pole lit up the online world in the past week, sparking questions about ...

You’re probably familiar with Santa Claus, also known as Kris Kringle, Father Christmas, Jolly Ol’ St. Nick or the Big Man in Red. Whatever name you know him by, Santa is said to fly from home to home ...

Update: Since we first published this story, we've learned that the camera that took the above photo may have started at the North Pole in the spring, but, because it's on an ice floe, it's since ...

Researchers working in Finland propose that the unique light environment of the Earth's Polar regions creates conditions that result in circumpolar hybrid zones around the North and the South Poles.

RV Polarstern returns home after its expedition through the Northeast and Northwest Passages Despite difficult ice conditions seismic profiles can be shot. The red fenders hold the airgun in 15 m ...

The magnetic north pole just isn’t where it used to be. Ever since the British polar explorer James Clark Ross first identified it on the Boothia Peninsula in Canada’s Nunavut territory in 1831, ...

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 ...

Although more federal scientific research is required before Canada’s Arctic Council makes its full submission to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, Foreign Affairs Minister ...

Imagine waking up one morning to find your compass pointing in a completely different direction than the day before. That's ...