The Earth’s magnetic field serves multiple crucial functions, ranging from protecting our planet against solar wind and cosmic radiation to facilitating animal migration patterns and supporting human ...

More than a decade of satellite monitoring has mapped Earth’s magnetic field as it subtly altered between 2014 and 2025 — and ...

SpaceX’s Fram2 mission is the first human spaceflight to the Earth’s polar regions. The four-member crew will conduct 22 research experiments, including the first X-ray in space and studies on human ...

A private space mission operated by SpaceX will become the first crewed voyage designed specifically to explore Earth’s polar regions. The mission — called Fram2 after the ship that helped explorers ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The first crewed space mission to explore Earth’s polar regions is getting ready to head back home. The four-person Fram2 crew launched into orbit from the Kennedy Space ...

They’re seeing what no human has seen before. The first civilian astronauts to orbit Earth’s polar region revealed the breathtaking view of the gleaming “pure white” tundra in the first-ever video ...

Traces of atmospheric nuclear tests conducted in the Pacific during the 1950s have been preserved in the ice of both Antarctica and the Arctic. A ...

Vast, yet remote; frigid, yet teeming with life; stark and barren, yet serenely beautiful—these are just a few of the contradictions of Earth’s polar regions. Within their frozen confines lie secrets ...

Earth's mantle is so gooey, it takes eons for material that has been displaced by the weight of ice sheets to flow back. And ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin Parts of both the Arctic and Antarctic have experienced historically high temperatures in recent weeks, ...