Polar days and polar nights occur in locations within the Arctic and Antarctic Circles. A polar day is when the sun does not set and stays above the horizon for an extended period, while a polar night ...

Carrying a rifle and keeping an alcohol-ration card are a few things that surprised me about living in Longyearbyen, the northernmost town on Earth.

This image provided by European Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury's north pole taken by the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo. (European Space Agency via AP) This image provided ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles ...

A pair of youths from Saskatchewan have been sentenced in connection with an arrest back in August in Fort Providence. It happened on Aug. 30 when the pair, aged 16 and 17, were spotted loitering ...

Chile's President Gabriel Boric has become the first leader in the Americas to visit the South Pole, after arriving at a US base there. The president said his visit to the Amundsen-Scott South ...

North to Alaska is a good-humored, old-fashioned, no-holds-barred, all-stops-out northern, a kind of rowdy second cousin to a not-very-adult western. It’s the sort of easygoing, slaphappy ...

(Photo by Bob Wick/Bureau of Land Management) As ConocoPhillips builds its huge Willow oil drilling project on the western side of Alaska’s North Slope, federal regulators and residents of the ...

As ConocoPhillips builds its huge Willow oil drilling project on the western side of Alaska’s North Slope, federal regulators and residents of the nearest Iñupiat village have struck a deal for ...

NORTH HAVEN — First Selectman Mike Freda said police are "pretty far into" an investigation to reconstruct the events of an early Saturday morning street takeover captured on video during which ...

An adventurer from Derby is looking to become the first woman to ski solo and unsupported to the North Pole. Preet Chandi, a former army physiotherapist, told Sky's Sarah-Jane Mee she is looking ...