The planet's magnetic North Pole, where compasses point, has been unexpectedly moving toward Russia. While shifting is not a rare occurrence, the pole is moving both faster and differently than it ...

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 ...

So, on Earth, the North Star is our pole star and it has been extremely useful for people living here for millennia. This begs the question, do other planets have pole stars or are we somehow lucky?

As the Northern Hemisphere welcomes spring today, the Southern Hemisphere is marked with the first day of autumn.

The United States has been at the epicenter of the planet’s most unusually cold conditions early in 2025. The polar vortex is to blame.

The North Pole is the point at the top of our planet where the Earth’s axis of rotation meets the surface. It is not a place.

the Arctic Circle (the North Pole) the Antarctic Circle (the South ... Running around the middle of the planet is an imaginary line called the Equator. Well I’m on the half that’s above ...