A journey through crushing sea ice, polar research stations and wildlife encounters reveals the Arctic in all its stark ...

The North Pole, according to Erling Kagge, exists as a reductio ad absurdum. Having no longitude, it’s really no place at all. The same applies to the South Pole, of course. But unlike the South Pole, ...

The movement of the magnetic North Pole is the result of the Earth having an active core. The inner core, starting about ...

NASSAU, Bahamas – Two Bahamians are literally sitting on top of the world and they took The Bahamas’ flag with them. NASSAU, Bahamas – Two Bahamians are literally sitting on top of the world and they ...

As we marvel at the technology around us, we realize that we have the wealth of human knowledge at our fingertips. With just ...

After 61 days of traveling across Arctic ice on skis, Mike Horn and Borge Ousland have completed their unassisted trek to the North Pole. They're the first explorers to do so in winter, during ...

LONDON -- The North Pole will turn into an open sea during summer within a decade, according to data released Wednesday by a team of explorers who trekked through the Arctic for three months. The ...

TORONTO -- Five explorers using huskies and wooden sleds reached the North Pole on Tuesday, setting a world record by coming in several hours earlier than a 37-day trek by American explorer Robert E.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — When the morning of April 7, 1909 dawned, Matthew Henson checked the temperature outside. It was 29 below zero. Later that day, Henson and the man he worked for, Robert Peary, would ...

The North Pole, geographically speaking, is the northernmost point on Earth. It marks the intersection of the Earth’s axis and the Earth’s surface. From there, every direction you turn would be south.