The warming of the Arctic is transforming not only its ice but also the genetics of its inhabitants. According to a study ...

A Polar vortex has covered the Philadelphia region under a canopy of frigid temperatures, but many people may not realize what a Polar vortex actually is, and the dangers — like frostbite — such ...

Four days after Russia's ill-fated Luna-25 moon probe crash landed, India's heavily instrumented Chandrayaan-3 robotic lander dropped out of orbit for a rocket-powered descent to the lunar surface, ...

A two-year international research effort kicked off this week to study the polar regions and how they're tied in to global climate change, in the first such collaborative scientific project in more ...

The polar vortex is in its final month as the condition that kills it is now occurring. The polar vortex is a swirling vortex most often centered over the top of the globe and hovers over the north ...

Scientists have released the most detailed polar region terrain maps ever created. Credit: Polar Geospatial Center/University of Minnesota/Maxar/ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency A team of ...

image: With four more years of satellite imagery data, researchers in the Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota and their partners have now released the most detailed polar region ...

The National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) publishes Polar Science, a peer-reviewed quarterly journal dealing with polar science, in collaboration with Elsevier B. V. The special issue titled ...