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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to a Street View camera bolted to a specially designed "tundra buggy," Google Maps shows a bear's-eye view of Churchill, Manitoba, nestled within one of the world's largest polar bear ...

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 ...

Much of the United States this week will be gripped by frigid temperatures and life-threatening wind chills, with some areas of the Midwest dealing with colder weather than they’ve seen in decades. If ...

A lobe of the Polar Vortex is going to swing through Ontario just north of Michigan. The upper-air forecast gives us an easy look at this strong winter player. The general meaning of the Polar Vortex ...

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