The polar regions are the coldest places on Earth. During the summer, the poles receive 24 hours of sunlight, but during the winter the sun is rarely visible. Animals that inhabit nature’s freezers ...

Little wonder the poles can seem timeless, places of desolate beauty – tundra and rock in the north, and wind and ice in the ...

This NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter image, acquired on May 13, 2018, during winter at the South Pole of Mars, shows a carbon dioxide ice cap covering the region and as the sun returns in the spring, ...

Before It’s Gone Arctic Research Expedition founder Felicity Aston and her team gather critical polar data before the sea ice ...

Several Gulf states experienced a major snowstorm this week. Changes in global climate patterns can be connected to weird ...

Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' dust storms, a new study suggests.

Some of Mars’ CO2 geysers erupt and create dark spots as large as 1 km across. They are fueled by considerable power and can ...

German scientist Dr. Nicole Biebow is keenly aware of how important it is to research and protect the Earth's increasingly fragile polar regions. The two poles are warming faster than any other ...

Some 60 million people are under weather alerts across 30 states. Seven of them have declared emergencies: Maryland, Virginia ...

Imagine it as a giant, icy whirlpool far above the Earth, keeping frigid ... pressure between warmer and colder regions. This stability helps keep the polar vortex — and all its bitterly cold ...

The polar vortex is an area of swirling cold air in the Earth's polar regions. During winter, the polar vortex at the North Pole expands, sending cold air southward, according to the National ...