The North Pole, the northernmost point on Earth, doesn't offer much variation in terms of looks. But there is far more to this distant floating ice mass than meets the eye. Here, MailOnline Travel ...

sits almost directly above Earth's north pole. Since Earth's northern axis points straight to it, it appears not to move in the night sky. Ever. That's why it's so useful to find. If you can ...

At the north pole the apparent rotation would be a full circle of 360 degrees each 24-hour day, or about 15 degrees per hour. This case is fairly simple, because here the earth and the pendulum are ...

Greetings, stargazers. The most interesting thing in the sky for me last month was seeing the most intense hailstorm with the largest hail I have seen since moving to Durango over twenty-five years ...

The star, more formally called Polaris or α Ursae Minoris, is located in the constellation Ursa Minor, sitting almost directly above Earth's North Pole in the sky, making it ideal for orientation.

Twice a year, the sun doesn’t play favorites. Everyone on Earth is seemingly on equal status – at least when it comes ...

NASA has discovered a planet-wide electric field on Earth, known as the ambipolar electric field. All you need you know about ...

At the South Pole, there’s a science experiment that makes the Burj Khalifa—the world’s tallest building—look small. It’s ...

In regions near to the North Pole it is daylight 24 hours per day in summer. Figure caption, It is winter in the UK when Earth’s northern hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun. Areas near to ...

the Earth rotates about this line, called an axis. In winter, the North Pole is tilted away from the Sun. So the Sun's rays can't reach places in the far north, the Arctic Circle. In these places ...