CALIFORNIA — The four-person civilian Fram2 mission returned home in a splash down off the coast of California on Friday after being the first humans to orbit Earth's polar regions. Riding in ...

The Fram2 will be the first time humans will orbit Earth's polar regions after it took off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Monday, March 31, 2025. (Spectrum News photo ...

In the atmospheric layer above it, about 10 to 30 miles up, is the stratospheric polar vortex, where every winter a sunlight-starved Arctic spins up a mass of cold air that, ultimately, dissipates ...