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 ...

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 ...

Marc Macias-Fauria is a professor of physical geography at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, UK. Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, ...

SpaceX’s Fram2 mission is the first human spaceflight to the Earth’s polar regions. The four-member crew will conduct 22 research experiments, including the first X-ray in space and studies on human ...

On the national level, "Polar Connections" is the theme of this year's National Science and Technology Week--April 26 to May 2--a major public-outreach program produced by the National Science ...

Proposals to artificially cool the world’s polar regions — to stem the impact of global warming — are both expensive, unfeasible and potentially dangerous, according to new scientific research. The ...

A private space mission operated by SpaceX will become the first crewed voyage designed specifically to explore Earth’s polar regions. The mission — called Fram2 after the ship that helped explorers ...

A team of researchers has released four more years of high-resolution imagery data, which has been added to eight years of previous data, to create the most detailed polar region terrain maps ever ...