The history of human exploration and research in the Antarctica has been hugely been impacted by Pensacola trained pilots, ...

Meteorologists and astronomers call the lengthy bright stretch there “polar day.” It’s the opposite of “polar night,” or the ...

Sled expeditions continue on Ellesmere Island and in the Northwest Passage, while other journeys have ended in Siberia, ...

1. David Frederick Attenborough was born on May 8, 1926 in Isleworth, Middlesex, the same year as Queen Elizabeth II. 2. His ...

The drifting Antarctic iceberg A-23A came to a sudden stop in late February off the coast of South Georgia Island — a British ...

Depending on the map projection used, the size of continents can be quite distorted - and a map showing the true size of each ...

A new exhibition celebrates the often-overlooked endpapers of more than 50 works of children's literature ranging from the ...

Most North Americans perceive our place on the planet through historical projections that place North America in the centre, Europe on the right, and Asia on the left. These maps give the impression ...

For centuries, Polaris, the North Star, was the most important ... You’ll need to wait 26 millennia to see the pole near ...

This June, a United Airlines plane will touch down in Nuuk, capital of Greenland. The Boeing 737 aircraft will look ...

Earth’s geology has shaped the planet over billions of years, with continents constantly coming together and breaking apart.