As autumn settled over Antarctica, sea ice began its seasonal return, with NASA capturing striking images of new growth in ...

Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.

Greenland's ice is melting, opening new sea routes and yielding easier access to prized natural resources, writes Fred Hewett. The island has become a bellwether of global disruption driven by climate ...

Microbial communities feeding on geothermal methane seeps beneath the Antarctic ice sheet could resemble life-supporting ...

An international team of scientists said it's found a link between the melting of Arctic sea ice and weather in far-flung ...

Scientists say that the geographical North Pole is on the move and could shift nearly 90 feet (27 metres) by 2100.

Cape Canaveral: Four space tourists who orbited the North and South Poles have safely returned to Earth after their privately ... 360-degree views of the polar caps and the vast landscape in ...

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said Robin E. Bell, referring to icy moons. Bell is a research professor at Columbia ...

LOS ANGELES, April 4 (Xinhua) -- The four-member crew of the world's first human spaceflight mission over the Earth's polar regions completed their mission on Friday and returned to Earth.

SpaceX is set to return to Earth today the four crew of the private polar Fram2 mission that launched from Kennedy Space Center on Monday night. The Crew Dragon Resilience is targeting splashdown ...

Since launching Monday night from Florida, the four-person crew, led by and paid for by Maltese investor Chun Wang, traveled in a circular orbit around Earth from pole to pole, a particular orbit ...