Are people on the South Pole walking upside down from the rest of the world? – Ralph P., U.S. When I was standing at the South Pole, I felt the same way I feel anywhere on Earth because my feet were ...

For the first time ever, a spacecraft has snapped images of the sun’s south pole. These swirling gold-and-black views of the fiery ball of gas are key to understanding the solar magnetic storms that ...

Kaamya Karthikeyan, celebrated as youngest female climber in the world to complete Seven Summits, is now setting her sights ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic microwave background, it is imperceptible to the human eye. But if scientists can ...

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When I was standing at the South Pole, I felt the same way I feel anywhere on Earth because my feet were still on the ground and the sky was still overhead. I’m an astrophysicist from Wisconsin who ...