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

When large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth and leads to a phenomenon ...

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

Until that point, no humans had ever flown above the poles in a spacecraft. The Fram2 crew – Chun Wang, Jannicke Mikkelsen, Rabea Rogge, and Eric Phillips – has flown above the north and south ...

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.

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 ...

The planet's magnetic North Pole, where compasses point, has been unexpectedly moving toward Russia. While shifting is not a rare occurrence, the pole is moving both faster and differently than it ...

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.

An image of the sun's south pole. ESA Every image you've ever seen of the sun is looking at its equator, because Earth's orbit sits there with a 7.25-degree tilt.

The dark UV ovals were first detected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope during the late 1990s at the north and south poles. During the Cassini spacecraft’s flyby of Jupiter in 2000, ...