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 ...

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.

An orbiting data centre, in a dawn-dusk sun-synchronous polar orbit that keeps it in continuous sunlight, could harness abundant solar energy. (With no atmosphere or clouds to scatter or block the ...

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 ...

SFL Missions Inc. is a member of the team led by NUVIEW GmbH that has been contracted by the European Space Agency (ESA) to conduct a Pre-Phase A study, with ...

It remains to be seen whether the U.S. Coast Guard will expedite the delivery of new polar icebreakers to maintain its presence in the Arctic amid growing challenges from Russia and China.

Kaib previously published work that suggested Earth's orbit was altered by a passing star three million years ago. “We looked at the typical, run-of-the-mill flybys,” Raymond told New Scientist.

A beloved dog named Franz will take his final leap this weekend — into Earth’s orbit. The yellow labrador’s ashes will be on board the inaugural Perseverance Flight from Texas-based Celestis ...

2M1510 Is The First Circumbinary Planetary System With A Polar Orbit The eclipsing binary dwarfs of 2M1510 are not the only reason why the planetary system is so unique.

A Planet That Shouldn't Exist? According to infrared data from the IRAS and AKARI satellites, this object, up to 17 times the mass of Earth, completes an orbit every 10,000 to 20,000 years.

The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun's two poles as scientists seek a deeper understanding of Earth's host star, including its magnetic field, its ...

Norwegian Monarch Visits Polar Svalbard as Interest in Arctic Grows By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) -Norway's King Harald and Queen Sonja visited the main settlement on the strategically located ...