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 ...

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

An outpost in the vast, cold wilderness.

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 ...

In 1951, the French Explorer Jean Malaurie witnessed the building of a US military base in Greenland in near total secrecy, ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The United States and Greenland have agreed to strengthen economic and trade ties after resolving a dispute over a service contract to a U.S. air base in the north of the Arctic ...

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 ...

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 ...

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SES Government Solutions (SES GS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, today announced it was awarded a contract of USD 14.5 million to support Thule Air Base in Greenland ...

Thule Air Base, the U.S.-run ballistic missile-warning site in Greenland, was retitled Pituffik Space Base in an April 6 ceremony at America’s northernmost military installation. Pituffik (pronounced ...

Thule Air Base, Greenland, 2014: A Canadian transport plane sits on the runway in front of a hangar at Thule Air Base. The Canadian Air Force used the runway at Thule for two weeks for its Operation ...