The North Pole was above freezing on Sunday after an extreme winter warming event caused temperatures to climb more than 36 F ...

A spacecraft has sent back some of the most detailed and breathtaking images of Mercury's north pole, shedding new light on the mysterious, shadowy regions of the small planet closest to the Sun.

As sunspots emerge on the sun's surface close to its equator, their orientations will match the old magnetic field, while sunspots forming closer to the poles will have a magnetic field matching the ...

During the Winter Solstice, the North Pole is tilted at around 23.4 degrees away from the sun, meaning its rays move southward from the Equator. To picture this tilt, imagine skewering the Earth ...

Craters at Mercury's north pole are visible just left of the "terminator ... almost perpendicular to its plane of orbit around the sun—the rims of all four of these polar craters cast permanent ...

Since 1979, the Arctic has warmed four times faster than the global average. This is an issue because the region acts as a refrigerator for the rest of the world — it helps cool the planet ...

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.

An influx of Arctic air from the North Pole has plunged much of the Midwest and eastern US into severe cold, resulting in ...

That bent light keeps traveling through the snowflake. Some of the light will hit different parts of the snowflake and bounce ...

New photos of Mercury's mysterious north pole reveal a glimpse of the permanently dark, frigid craters that may hold ice dozens of feet thick, even though Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.

Scientists in Britain have been keeping an eye on where the Earth's magnetic north pole is. It's not fixed like the geographical North Pole; instead, it's like a wandering star. Recently, they found ...