An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the Earth.

Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

The compass of international relations is in constant motion, its needle swinging between North and South, East and West in ...

Psyche, spanning 173 miles (280 km) at its widest, stands out in the asteroid belt. Long thought to be the exposed metallic ...

Galileo started this quest over 400 years ago, and scientists finally were able to peek at one of the biggest mysteries of the big star in our solar system.

The mass of extremely warm air threw the freezing polar vortex out of balance, shoving it off its North Pole axis so forcefully that it in effect split in two, as if growing a pair of legs: one ...

On June 21, the summer solstice, the northern slopes of the Greater Khingan Mountains are bathed in more than 21 hours of daylight. This is Mohe, China's northernmost city in Heilongjiang province, ...

The three autonomous driving experts told Business Insider about how they think the launch went, and what may have prompted ...

Colorado celebrates Independence Day with fireworks, lasers and drones, the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Rockies, Rapids and ...

Warsaw's gorgeously reconstructed Old Town and, in its rising downtown, the new museum of modern art, by the New York–based ...

The only evening planet for July is Mars, faint red in the west at dusk, and getting lost in the Sun’s glare by August. High ...

Searchers are moving on foot through rough terrain, looking for survivors or victims’ remains in woods, culverts and other places.