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If they had superhero vision, an astronaut would see the people at the South Pole and North Pole standing upside down from ...
From a young age, Roald Amundsen dreamed of exploring the world and habitually slept with his windows open — even during ...
The Solar Orbiter has captured humanity's first look at the south pole of the sun, revealing messy magnetic fields and particles being ejected at high speeds.
Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.
Discover what's going on at the north pole, as scientists work to update the world's GPS systems to account for strange magnetic activity.
The updated version of the World Magnetic Model was released on Dec. 17, with a new prediction of how the magnetic north pole will shift over the next five years. Here's why it was changed.
British scientists said the magnetic North Pole was moving rapidly toward Russia. Here's what that means.
Unpopulated and in the middle of nowhere, Point Nemo is starting to have a history. This article appears in the November 2024 ...
Before I went to the North Pole this summer, I read the memoir of the greatest Arctic explorer of an earlier era. “ Farthest North” chronicles the expedition of Fridtjof Nansen, a Norwegian scientist ...
CONWAY — The Berry Companies this week announced it has refurbished and reinstalled the iconic Norcross Place sign, a symbol of North Conway's ski heritage and community spirit. Once signifying the ...
In 1897, three explorers set out to reach the North Pole by hot air balloon—but they never made it. Their disappearance became one of the great unresolved dramas of Arctic exploration.
Brendan Fisher (left) and Troy Leighton (right) pose at the South Pole with a sign Fisher made with steel from the Mackinac Bridge deck grating, listing the distance to the Mackinac Bridge from ...