A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater near the surface could help explain some of the decrease in Antarctic sea ...

Lightning happens all the time, but certain parts of the world get far less of it than others, including near the North Pole. Lightning requires atmospheric instability, something that’s set up ...

More than 200 people across a half-dozen southern states have reported witnessing a mysterious object streak across the sky.

Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies.

Finally, the Earth moves a little bit beyond one complete revolution, so the stick again points towards the sun for a second local noon. The sidereal day is just a little bit shorter—approximately 23 ...

A rare geological event occurs every 300,000 years or so: the Earth’s magnetic poles flip. The magnetic poles are the two ...

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

Research ships rarely brave the Greenland Sea in winter. Early this year, scientists ventured into the ice-covered waters to ...

For the first time in history, we re seeing the Sun from an angle no one ever has: from above and below its poles. Thanks to ...

First view of the Sun’s pole. On March 23, 2025, Solar Orbiter reached an angle of 17° below the Sun’s equator. From that position, it could look directly at the Sun’s south pole. Over the next ...

Then Dorothy Douglas underbid him, and she began running the North Pole Post Office in a small building inside the city limits. In March 1964, the building was having permafrost issues causing the ...