Searchers in Alaska are flying over stretches of ice-covered seas and scouring miles of frozen tundra for any sign of a plane ...

The aurora borealis (also known as the northern lights) is a mesmerizing natural phenomenon that occurs in the northernmost destinations in the world, such as Alaska, Norway, Iceland, Finland, ...

On Tuesday, the sun rose in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, for the first time since November—but only for a whopping 48 minutes before it set again. The sun appeared around 1:15 p.m. and disappeared just after 2 ...

Related stories The northern lights are visible within the auroral zone — an area spanning across Iceland, Fennoscandia, northern Canada, and parts of Alaska ... the long polar night when ...

as a tugboat that could tow Shell’s 250-foot-tall polar drill rig, the Kulluk, around the coast of Alaska and help anchor it in the waters of the Far North. At its christening ceremony in ...

Each event is a one-time-only light show across the night sky. While scientists have a general understanding of what causes polar auroras – charged particles released by the Sun, known as solar flares ...

With the jet stream so high to the north of Alaska, it briefly interacted with the polar vortex before dipping ... cold temperatures through Wednesday night. New England has remained mostly ...

The words of Gill Punt, who had more reason to worry than all other runners in the polar night marathon in Norway, since she was about to run it dressed as a polar bear. But the PE teacher ...

As the polar vortex delivered what is expected to be its final blast across southern Ontario on Wednesday, city residents braved the bitter cold — including Fintan the lion at the Toronto Zoo.

The system, known as a polar vortex, is forecast to bring subzero temperatures to the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and deep into the South. And it looks as if we may get more arctic blasts in the coming ...

Its year consists of one six-month day and one six-month night, with one day each of twilight at each equinox. And it was minus-8 degrees Tuesday morning at the base. Oh, there are no polar bears ...