The research ship Polarstern spent two months in the ice of the Arctic this summer. What they found could be evidence of an ...

Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies. Earlier this month, we spoke of Ursa Major, the Big Bear, so this week we ...

September is wrapping up with another unseasonably warm day. Any Alert Days Ahead? No. Aware: We will end the month just over ...

EVANSTON, IL — — Summer isn’t so much a defined, 93-day season as it is a state of mind — and luckily those celebrating the summer solstice on Friday, June 20, long-regarded as the “official” start to ...

Something strange is happening in the frozen skies above Mars’s North Pole. Deep in the planet’s endless winter darkness, where temperatures drop to unthinkable lows and sunlight never reaches the ...

Tickets for the Essex Steam Train North Pole Express are on sale now. The train ride offers a “magical nighttime journey to the North Pole” where children and families can celebrate the spirit of the ...

New research has unveiled the awesome power of newly-discovered "space hurricanes." In 2014, an unusual phenomenon appeared in space, miles above the North Pole. It looked like a hurricane you might ...

Earth wobbles on its axis like a spinning top, a motion called precession. This wobble takes about 26,000 years to complete one full circle. Different stars have served as the North Star throughout ...

Aug. 19—After nearly two decades of Anchorage teams being the face of high school flag football in Alaska, a team from the Interior emerged from the fray last season to claim the first sanctioned ...

This story was excerpted from Jordan Bastian’s Cubs Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. In the wake of the 1985 Draft, members of ...

The polar vortex is making a return to the forecast, but the counterintuitive weather feature is nothing to fear.

The 2025 summer solstice takes place on June 20, heralding the onset of astronomical summer and the longest day of the year. Sunlovers rejoice, for the summer solstice is upon us, bringing the longest ...