The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury’s night side before ...

A spacecraft has captured detailed images of Mercury's north pole, shedding new light on the mysterious side of the planet.

Earth’s magnetic north pole is on the move—and in surprising ways. With the release of the World Magnetic Model 2025, ...

Auroras are beautiful lights seen near the North and South Poles. If you are near the North Pole, the lights are called ...

It’s a cold air outbreak that some experts say is happening more frequently, and paradoxically, because of a warming world.

Our obsession with the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton is emblematic of a problematic tendency: that of celebrating ...

At the most northerly tip of the UK, looking north from the island of Muckle Flugga, Shetland, the cold wind whips up the sea ...

True leadership isn’t about swaggering through crises of one’s own making or dramatic heroics. It’s about avoidance of a ...

Every five years, the location of the Magnetic North Pole is updated. In the latest model, it continues its shift toward ...

Though you might think that compasses will always point towards the geographic north pole, the magnetic and geographic poles ...