English explorer William Scoresby kicked off the 19th century's Arctic craze when he became the new record holder for reaching the northernmost point yet on Earth in 1806. Expeditions in the first ...

The North Pole, according to Erling Kagge, exists as a reductio ad absurdum. Having no longitude, it’s really no place at all. The same applies to the South Pole, of course. But unlike the South Pole, ...

NASSAU, Bahamas – Two Bahamians are literally sitting on top of the world and they took The Bahamas’ flag with them. NASSAU, Bahamas – Two Bahamians are literally sitting on top of the world and they ...

LONDON -- The North Pole will turn into an open sea during summer within a decade, according to data released Wednesday by a team of explorers who trekked through the Arctic for three months. The ...

After 61 days of traveling across Arctic ice on skis, Mike Horn and Borge Ousland have completed their unassisted trek to the North Pole. They're the first explorers to do so in winter, during ...

TORONTO -- Five explorers using huskies and wooden sleds reached the North Pole on Tuesday, setting a world record by coming in several hours earlier than a 37-day trek by American explorer Robert E.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — When the morning of April 7, 1909 dawned, Matthew Henson checked the temperature outside. It was 29 below zero. Later that day, Henson and the man he worked for, Robert Peary, would ...

The North Pole, geographically speaking, is the northernmost point on Earth. It marks the intersection of the Earth’s axis and the Earth’s surface. From there, every direction you turn would be south.

The movement of the magnetic North Pole is the result of the Earth having an active core. The inner core, starting about 3,200 miles below your feet, is solid and under such immense pressure that it ...