A two-year international research effort kicked off this week to study the polar regions and how they're tied in to global climate change, in the first such collaborative scientific project in more ...

It won’t take Børge Ousland and Vincent Colliard quite as long to cross the shrinking Juneau Icefield during the next few weeks as it would have when they started their quest to cross the world’s 20 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A blast of frigid air will dip down from the polar region later this week and deliver near-zero temperatures near New York City, forecasters said. “This is coming directly from ...

The polar vortex is in its final month as the condition that kills it is now occurring. The polar vortex is a swirling vortex most often centered over the top of the globe and hovers over the north ...

India made history Wednesday by becoming the first country to reach the lunar south pole. An uncrewed robotic moon lander, operated by India’s space agency and known as the Chandrayaan-3, touched down ...

China has completed its first manned deep dive below the Arctic polar ice in what was also the world’s first coordinated crewed-uncrewed submersible operation in the polar region. The dives were ...

Findings from a recently published paper led by Smithsonian senior scientist emeritus Thomas R. Watters reveal evidence that the south polar region of Earth’s moon has experienced the effects of the ...