In a maneuver never before attempted, the 232-foot-tall Super Heavy booster executed a series of precise burns to align itself with the launch tower. We Build a Barn, Got Stuck in the MUD and Shot a ...

Jon Fresch / U.S. Army Paul Bierman, Undark Magazine In recent years, the Arctic has become a magnet ... in a vision. A U.S. Air Force C-119 Flying Boxcar delivering a bulldozer to northern ...

Each decade around 13% of the ice in the Arctic Ocean is lost, but scientists are now exploring whether new technology can help refreeze the sea ice and halt its rapid decline. Such is the rate of ...

Archaeologists have identified the cannibalized remains of a senior officer who perished during an ill-fated 19th century Arctic expedition ... s sailors at a site on King William Island in ...

The United States needs to develop a comprehensive strategy for the Arctic. Melting sea ice is generating ... at a cost of approximately $1 billion apiece, and an air station in Point Barrow ...

Sailors on a fast-attack submarine became the Navy’s first-ever crew to receive the service’s new Arctic Service Medal, a decoration created last year to recognize missions that travel over ...

The Arctic is shedding ice at a rate of 12 per cent per decade and is set to be ice-free in the summer by the 2030s – regardless of how fast we cut emissions from now on. Meanwhile, in ...

The Arctic summer sea ice minimum also stayed ... land — causing the Arctic and Antarctic to act something like an “air conditioner” for the planet. Known as the albedo effect, this property ...

A bold plan to pump seawater over the frozen Arctic Ocean could offer humanity a final chance to save the region’s vanishing sea ice. Field trials conducted this year in the Canadian Arctic to ...

It is an odd place. Way above the Arctic Circle—a mere 814 miles from the North Pole—Longyearbyen, in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, is home to only 2,400 people but more than 1.3 million seeds.

China and Russia are looking to work more closely together in the Arctic including in science, a senior Chinese official for the polar regions said during a visit to a territory that is part of ...

Russia has already dispatched a record amount of oil through its section of the Arctic Circle this year, expediting cargo deliveries to China in what is an environmentally sensitive area. At least ...