In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.

WASHINGTON – Neptune's glowing auroras are captured in the best detail yet by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Hints of ...

Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

Ever wondered why Chinese Democracy took so long to make? This is the truly unbelievable story of a year in the life of Axl ...

The three transcendentals or universal realities — truth, goodness and beauty — slide easily into Catholic conversations. And ...

Ice cover ebbs and flows through the seasons in the Arctic (left) and the Antarctic (right). Overall, ice cover has declined ...

A bus passes a swan in London, a blue shark swims near Cornwall, and a group of pigeons eyes a tasty snack in Essex.

Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet ...

While much of the Arctic Ocean has seen open water at some ... is shown in red. Image courtesy of W. Meier/National Snow and Ice Data Center. Remote, inhospitable polar landscapes have always ...

But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...

Modern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China’s stranglehold ...

A pair of researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada, working with a colleague from the Scripps Institution of ...