In the stratosphere over Siberia, temperatures recently jumped nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit, shoving the polar vortex off its North Pole perch.

Lightning happens all the time, but certain parts of the world get far less of it than others, including near the North Pole. Lightning requires atmospheric instability, something that’s set up ...

Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies.

The star Polaris marks the North Celestial Pole in our sky, around which all other objects in the heavens appear to rotate.

I was looking forward to writing a tribute to clear summer skies and great summer stargazing in the Pacific Northwest.

Trump and flags have a history at the White House in Washington and the Winter White House, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach. Here ...

Interestingly, it saw that the Sun’s magnetic field has its north and south all tangled up, with patches of both magnetic polarities present right up to the Sun’s south pole. This only happens once ...

A probe developed by the European Space Agency has taken the first images of the Sun’s south pole. How big of an achievement is this, and what can we learn from it? Joining Seán to discuss this ...

We didn’t know what exactly to expect from these first observations — the Sun’s poles are literally terra incognita,” said Sami Solanki of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, ...

From that position, it could look directly at the Sun’s south pole. Over the next several years, the spacecraft will gradually increase its orbital tilt, offering even clearer views. “Today we reveal ...

In the summer of 1965, a heated battle brewed up the City of North Pole over the relocation of the North Pole Post Office. For several years prior to 1964, Con Miller had the mail contract for a ...

Competing at states for the third straight year, Starpoint’s Emily Waldron placed third in the Class B pole vault on the second day of action at Middletown High School. The junior’s mark of 11 ...