Poles

The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole, Terrestrial North Pole or 90th Parallel North, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.

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SpaceX Set to Launch First-Ever Crew over Earth's Poles

SpaceX to launch 4 people on historic Fram2 mission over Earth's poles in late 2024

A recent study links the evolution of multicellularity to the extreme environmental conditions of the so-called Snowball Earth period, when glaciers may have stretched from the poles to the equator.

NASA Launches Second Small Climate Satellite to Study Earth’s Poles

NASA Launches Small Climate Satellite to Study Earth’s Poles

NASA Launches Small Climate Satellite to Study Earth’s Poles

NASA's PREFIRE mission is ready to unlock the mysteries of Earth's poles

Galileo tracked sunspot movements and discovered that the Sun rotates. It is now known that sunspots close to the equator rotate once each 25 days and sunspots near the poles rotate each 38 days

Spacecraft landing on the moon can create a temporary (over 2 lunar days) atmosphere with their exhaust gases, contaminating the ice water held in cold traps near the poles

Perfectly straight ridges may cover the poles of Saturn’s moon Titan

The sun’s poles are about to flip. The 11-year solar cycle, explained.

In 1872, a Solar Storm Hit the Earth Generating Auroras from the Tropics to the Poles

The Weirdest Reason the Poles Are Warming So Fast? Invisible Clouds

Humans have pumped so much groundwater, we’ve shifted Earth’s axis: Changes in the distribution of groundwater around the planet between 1993 and 2010 were enough to make Earth's poles drift by 80 cm

Marine fish are responding to ocean warming by relocating towards the poles

Ice Sheet Collapse at Both Poles to Start Sooner Than Expected, Study Warns

This Exoplanet Orbits Around its Star’s Poles

Mars has enough wind to power bases near the poles all year round

Laying Geological Groundwork for Life on Earth – Early Plate Tectonics, Flipping of Geomagnetic Poles

Learning about the first animals on Earth from life at the poles