KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — As SpaceX launched the four-person crew of the Fram2 mission on Monday night, it was a takeoff for the history books as they will be the first humans to ever orbit Earth’s polar ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The Fram2 mission will be the first human spaceflight around Earth’s polar regions, as the commander shares with Spectrum News what this new adventure means to him. The ...
Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being ...
Rising Arctic temperatures and melting sea ice could be causing cold air to flow into the Northern Hemisphere. But not all scientists agree. By Eric Niiler The polar vortex is a ribbon of ...
To understand what Americans are experiencing with this winter blast, we need to look more than 20 miles above the surface of Earth, to the stratospheric polar vortex. When you purchase through links ...
Iran has launched three domestically built Earth-observation satellites into orbit with the help of a Russian Soyuz rocket, in a rideshare mission from Siberia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome. In a mission ...
In a 2014 speech, Chinese President Xi Jinping stated the country’s desire to become a so-called polar power. In 2024, China sent three icebreakers into Arctic waters for the first time. Together, ...