The Trump administration formally announced Thursday that it planned to expand drilling in the Arctic, including in the contentious Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Interior Department said ...

But, when Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on March 18 that Canada was purchasing such a system to detect incoming missiles over the Arctic ... a layer of the Earth’s atmosphere that ...

IQALUIT, Nunavut-Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on March 18 a C$6 billion (S$5.5 billion) deal with Australia to develop an Arctic radar system, warning that Canada must take more ...

Trump has also opened the door to annexing neighbouring Greenland for US security, as the Arctic increasingly becomes ... mountains or the curvature of the Earth – over-the-horizon radars ...

During World War II, the U.S. got a taste of what a war in the Arctic could look like. In the Battle of Attu, the Japanese army took the Aleutian island of Attu in Alaska and the 7th Infantry ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth after a nine-month delay due to a Boeing test flight issue, safely splashing down off the Florida coast aboard a SpaceX capsule.View o ...

He characterised the deal to defend the Arctic as an effort to assert Canadian sovereignty over the region. The new radar system is set to replace the ageing North Warning System, which relied on ...

But Yakutia’s real significance lies in what it says about Moscow’s sweeping ambitions for the Arctic. Along with other ice-breaking ships, the hulking vessel will ply the treacherous waters ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have returned to Earth after being stuck in space for more ...

The past nine years have been the warmest on record in the Arctic, with 2024 marking the second-warmest year since 1900. These temperatures are causing the permafrost — permanently frozen ground that ...

The ISS orbits at an altitude of 354km (220 miles), while the average distance to Mars from Earth is a staggering 225 million kilometres (140 million miles). Astronaut Frank Rubio holds the record ...

The Northern Sea Route illustrates how emerging trade and mining opportunities are driving renewed interest in Arctic geopolitics. Though 2024 trade volumes fell well short of Moscow’s expectation, ...