The European Space Agency aims to develop an orbiter-lander mission that will sample the icy plumes of Saturn's icy ocean moon Enceladus and search for signs of life.

SpaceX is gearing up for one of its most unique missions yet, launching four private astronauts into polar orbit to observe the planet’s most remote regions from above. The Fram2 mission, named in ...

Sept. 23, 2015 — Researchers have discovered a new dinosaur on Alaska’s North Slope, a duck-billed plant eater whose existence is forcing scientists to reconsider prehistoric life in the polar regions ...

Every year the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star travels to the White Continent to deliver supplies to McMurdo Station — a research base in Antarctica.

U of T Scarborough researchers have directly linked population decline in polar bears living in Western Hudson Bay to shrinking sea ice caused by climate change. The researchers developed a model that ...