At 3:39 p.m. on January 21, 1968, the aircraft slammed into the ice seven miles west of the base. The impact carved a ...

In 1951, Jean Malaurie was dogsledding along northwestern Greenland when he saw a city under construction. It had not been there three months earlier.

Pituffik Space Base in Greenland hosts US Space Force missile radars amid Trump takeover push. NORAD deploys aircraft; branch ...

On the frozen coast of northwestern Greenland, the United States is quietly transforming its only military outpost on the island into a far more capable hub for space and missile defense. The work at ...

While few details of the exact work at Pituffik have been made public, the improvements come during a time of intense focus ...

Thule Air Base is the United States Air Force's northernmost base, located 1,207 km (750 mile) north of the Arctic[...] ...

The U.S. military’s Thule Air Base in Greenland is no more. By that name, anyway. The Defense Department’s northernmost installation was renamed Pituffik Space Base recently, using the Greenlandic ...

This episode of The Big Picture focuses on the secret construction of an air base near Thule, #Greenland in the early 1950s. Built during the Cold War, the base was to provide the U.S. a home for long ...

Greenland's natural resources and proximity to Russia and China have made it a valuable strategic asset to the US military ...

This article first appeared in print in the Stars and Stripes Global edition, Jan. 15, 2015. It is republished unedited in its original form. THULE AIR BASE, Greenland — Legend has it that Eric the ...

History also shows that many of the fanciful engineering ideas for Greenland failed because they misjudged the island’s harsh ...