After five days, five continents, two weather delays, 13 stops and 57.6 hr. of flying time, the crew of The Polar Mission ...

Giant icebergs the size of Cambridge once roamed off the coast of the UK, according to British Antarctic Survey researchers.

On March 27 — 15 days after its launch — SPHEREx saw its first light, proving its instruments performed as designed. This ...

Last month was the second hottest April on record with world temperatures remaining above the key 1.5C threshold for global ...

This incident underscores a stark reality: Under some climate scenarios, scientists predict, 80 percent of Antarctica’s emperor penguin colonies will disappear by the turn of the century.

The mission was named Fram2 in honor of a 19th century sailing ship — Fram, or “forward” in Norwegian — that carried arctic ...

The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper seven days a week that is available to read on ...

Named Fram2 in deference to the ship “Fram” built in Norway that helped explorers get to the Arctic and Antarctica. The crew includes Chinese-born Chun Wang of Malta, an entrepreneur who made a ...

The repeated evolution of huge birds is part of the dinosaurian legacy. Beaked birds were the only dinosaurs to have survived ...

The Polar Mission, a mission to circumnavigate the globe from south to north over both poles, launched successfully April 30 ...

Far from the most dangerous point in the launch, the Firefly rocket's separation caused it to miss its orbital insertion.