"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

The Fram2 mission, which launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, is funded by Chinese-born Chun Wang.

What is it named after? The mission, named "Fram2," is inspired by the famous 19th-century Norwegian ship used for Arctic and Antarctic expeditions, news agency AFP reported. During the flight ...

The tenth and coldest polar vortex of the season is blasting across the US this week. More than 58million Americans are under National Weather Service cold warnings from the US-Canada border to as ...

Dragon and the crew will launch to a 90° circular orbit from Florida, and travel to ~440 km above Earth to explore the polar regions of our planet": SpaceX ...

New Zealand ranks third globally in the proportion of ice lost from glaciers. Almost 30% of ice volume has melted during the past 24 years and what remains is disappearing at an accelerating pace ...

SpaceX's mission to launch the first astronauts into polar orbit is quickly approaching. SpaceX announced the Fram2mission and its crew last summer, introducing Maltese entrepreneur Chun Wang as ...