A groundbreaking study published inGeophysical Research Letters has revealed that Earth’s North and South Poles are shifting ...

The discovery of Eos, the closest known molecular cloud to Earth and one of the largest structures in the night sky, hints at ...

Satellites in polar orbits usually travel around Earth from, roughly, one pole to the other, rather than from west to east. They do not need to pass exactly over the North and South Poles ...

Named Eos, the cloud of gas would appear huge in the night sky if visible to the naked eye and could shed light on solar ...

A group of astronauts whizzing around Earth from orbit are getting some pretty spectacular views of our planet's poles – and SpaceX is sharing a look. The four international astronauts are on a ...

The quartet travelled in a circular orbit around Earth from pole to pole, passing over the icy masses every 40 or so minutes in a particular orbit that no humans have flown before. The crew ...

The mission is named after the Fram, a steam-and-sail powered ship used by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen during his historic 1910-1912 expedition to the South Pole. The polar orbit means the ...

Geographical poles — are the points at which the Earth’s axis of rotation intersects the surface. As our planet rotates around its own axis, oscillations occur caused by ocean currents, changes in the ...

"During the great freezing," says Schrag, "carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere dropped, the earth's temperature fell to around 58 degrees below zero, and the ice covered everything — ocean ...