A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation ...
April 5, 2025 - By Laura Ciasto and Amy Butler - After spending much of the season with super strong wind speeds, the polar ...
Several days with temperatures of 10-20 degrees below the historical average could be dangerous to plants and ruin outdoor plans.
The last crew to return to Earth via a Pacific splashdown were the three NASA astronauts of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission.
SpaceX launches world-first polar mission, funded by crypto magnate - It is the first mission to send a crew over both poles ...
Cape Canaveral, Fla. — A bitcoin investor who bought a SpaceX flight for himself and three polar explorers blasted off Monday ...
The mission is named after the Fram, a steam-and-sail powered ship used by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen during his historic 1910-1912 expedition to the South Pole. The polar orbit means the ...
The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator: a plush polar bear.