SpaceX's Fram2 astronauts have become the first humans to orbit Earth via its poles, capturing images of the Arctic and ...

Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...

Modern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China’s stranglehold ...

The concept of all Earth’s ice melting might sound like a scene from a science fiction movie, but it is a scenario that ...

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet ...

The meltdown extends beyond the Arctic. Antarctica recently flirted with a record low in its own annual sea ice minimum – ...

For the first time, scientists have captured detailed measurements of water vapor high above Greenland’s vast ice sheet.

Explore six of Earth’s most mysterious and largely untouched regions, from the dense Amazon's Vale do Javari and Bhutan's ...

Elon Musk aims to colonize Mars despite challenges such as its extreme climate, thin atmosphere, and lack of liquid water.

Future missions to Venus could also supply additional data on the density and temperature of the planet's crust, which could ...