A harsh drop in temperatures is being delivered to the eastern two thirds of the country thanks to a polar vortex dipping ...

You don't have to live in the U.S. Midwest to have heard about the polar vortex, but if you do you've no doubt felt its effects. Frigid temperatures are swallowing up many states thanks to a mass of ...

Google Street View has taken viewers to the Amazon, the Galapagos, and now, the Canadian Arctic the home of polar bears. Starting Thursday, on International Polar Bear Day, people around the world ...

Google on Thursday added polar bears to the natural splendor people can glimpse from the comfort of their homes at the Internet giant's free online mapping service. Members of the Google Maps team ...

Newly-released images of the lunar south-polar region obtained by ESA’s SMART-1 are proving to be wonderful tools to zero-in on suitable study sites for potential future lunar exploration missions.

When the tundra freezes, the North Slope gets busy. It's the travel season, the time of year when oil producers can put in ice roads and move heavy equipment over the frozen ground. But before any of ...

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These color maps of Jupiter were constructed from images taken by the narrow-angle camera onboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 11 and 12, 2000, as the spacecraft neared Jupiter during its flyby ...

Google Street View has taken viewers to the Amazon, the Galapagos, and now, the Canadian Arctic — the home of polar bears. Starting today, on International Polar Bear Day (Feb. 27), people around the ...