Fram2 crew was surprised to not see any evidence of human activity at the South Pole from 285 miles above. For the first time in history, a crew of four people are getting to see Earth's North and ...

NASA’s Juno mission has gathered new data from Jupiter. This includes updates from the planet’s cloudy atmosphere and its ...

A major disruption to the Arctic polar vortex has bumped the ring of wind that circles the North Pole off its perch and ... above Earth's surface. Breaking space news, the latest updates on ...

But from 260 miles above in space, he saw no trace of humanity — just desolation: a seemingly endless view of pure white ice.

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

No one saw Earth's poles from space in the more than 400 human spaceflight missions preceding Fram2. The closest any crew mission has gotten to the poles was the Soviet Union's Vostok 6 mission in ...

Thunderstorms are rare in the cold, dry Arctic, but a surprising event in August 2019 has scientists rethinking how these ...

Lightning near the North Pole reveals dramatic climate changes as Arctic temperatures rise and storms intensify.

The international all-civilian Fram2 crew is the first in space history to fly to orbit with no licensed pilot or trained astronaut on board.

Since satellites and deep space telescopes work out their ... the rebound effects can still be seen in the natural shift of the North Pole. However, in the near future the scientists say that ...