The Latest Breaking News from the North Pole

Want the best Santa Tracker and to play some fun games through Norad or Google? We're live-blogging Santa's movements as he ventures out from the North Pole

The military’s tradition of tracking Santa Claus will carry on even if the U.S. government shuts down

The autumnal equinox brings fall to the Northern Hemisphere today as the sun passes directly over the equator at noon. But are day and night actually equal length today?

The boundary pushing artist, who has a major new show at the Hayward, on his travels to the North Pole and the edge of space: ‘You find solace in the extreme’

We explore how magnetic compasses work, revealing the science behind them and the anomaly you need to bear in mind if navigating over long distances

For too long Santa Claus has gone without consequences for his unethical business practices. It's about time he got cancelled.

The Santa Clauses season 2 on Disney Plus sees the Calvin family back at the North Pole and facing a new threat.

Considerable effort has been invested in determining when the Arctic Ocean might first become ice-free in summer, a.k.a. a “blue ocean event” and defined as when the sea ice area drops below 1 million sq. km. We don’t know exactly when the last blue ocean event happened, but one in…

Frederick Cook claimed to have reached the top of the world, but a new book says he was lying