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 ...

Solar Orbiter captures first-ever images of the Sun’s poles, offering insights into solar magnetism, atmospheric motion, and ...

Was the movie Alien vs Predator correct? Is there really an ancient pyramid in Antarctica? If true, this would suggest it is millions of years older than Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, which is considered ...

Ahead of the Red Sox-Yankees series at Fenway Park, one field in small-town Texas brings everything to those who can't make ...

Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of ...

"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

On a brutally cold Halloween evening in 1956, a plane landed at the ice-covered bottom of the Earth, touching down at the ...

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North wasn’t always “up” on world maps. North doesn't always mean "up" when it comes to geophysics. Scientists have known for decades that magnetic north, a spot once located in Arctic Canada, is ...

The world’s big space powers are racing to send ... In recent years, scientists have focused on the potential of the lunar south pole as a vast source of water ice. Now, new observations from ...

This fanciful account led the cartographer to place a large black rock—believed to be magnetic—right at the North Pole ... designed a map that instead focused on the world’s water.