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, ...

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 ...

As ScienceDirect shared, the researchers published their study in the journal Environmental Research. They took samples from ...

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 ...

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Under a brilliant moon, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flashed to life and vaulted away from Cape Canaveral late Sunday, boosting the European Space Agency's $1.5 billion Solar Orbiter probe ...

A new co-ordinated international set of rules to govern commercial and research activities in both of Earth’s polar regions is urgently needed to reflect new environmental realities and to temper ...

The Earth’s polar regions are warming much more rapidly than the rest of the planet. The Arctic Ocean, which includes the North Pole, registered its second lowest ice coverage, 1.44 million square ...

PITTSBURGH — January was a mild one for Pittsburgh, with the monthly temperature almost two degrees above average. Snowfall finished a half an inch above average. Back in mid-January, we told you how ...

Winter-lovers have been waiting for a spell of real winter weather. Winter-dreaders have been looking around the corner to see if Old Man Winter is going to show up. Here are a few thoughts about ...