Scientists found that large-scale dam building since 1835 shifted Earth's poles over a meter and significantly lowered sea ...

In 2011, Barbara Hillary, a 79-year-old retired nurse, became the first black woman to reach the South Pole. Just four years earlier, Hillary stood on top ...

Our planet’s gymnastics routine continues underneath our feet nearly every day, but researchers recently mapped what they say ...

Over the past 200 years, humans have stored hundreds of billions of liters of water in thousands of dams around the world. In ...

SpaceX launched four people to orbit over both the North and South poles on Monday night, marking the first time humans have ever flown such a mission. Fram2 blasted off from the Kennedy Space ...

Circling from pole to pole, the crew observed Earth’s polar regions from about 267 miles above the ground – an altitude that allowed the Dragon to fly from the North Pole to the South Pole in ...

British explorer Sir James Clark Ross discovered the magnetic north pole in 1831 in northern Canada, approximately 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) south of the true North Pole.

The first leg of the flight, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the South Pole took half an hour and would circle the globe in roughly 90 minutes. "Enjoy the views of the poles.

The earth's North and South magnetic poles are products of a single phenomena - a magnetic dipole. They are by definition opposite each other - if one moves the other moves as well. Alan May 10 ...

Launching a group of people — or satellites — on an orbital path that circumnavigates the North and South poles is no small task. Advertisement. Advertisement. Advertisement.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four space tourists who orbited the north and south poles returned to Earth on Friday, splashing down in the Pacific to end their privately funded polar tour.