Antarctica

If treasures were ranked based on being the most impossible to reap, the golden bounty inside Mount Erebus near the icy South Pole would surely rank priceless. A cataclysmic explosion ...

Capturing a frozen bubble sounds easier than it is. Station chef and photographer Justin Chambers tells of how ...

Commentary The “scramble for Antarctica” is slowly gathering steam, and it is not unrelated to a new “scramble ...

With 60 percent of the world's fresh water trapped in Antarctica's ice, some say it's becoming critical to ...

Scientists working at a research base in Chilean Antarctica spotted one penguin sticking out from all the rest. ...

To explore Antarctica by ship, you first must brave the tempestuous and unpredictable Drake Passage.

A deadly type of bird flu has been found in gentoo penguins for the first time, according to ...

At 5:25 p.m. on Jan. 6, Antarctic local time, the figure of a Hong Kong youth holding a ...

A Melbourne mum has broken the world record for longest run in a polar region after completing a ...

Deep-diving robots will venture kilometres under the Southern Ocean's surface to determine how it is holding up in ...

Australia is set to triple the size of its marine park on Macquarie Island, making it far larger ...

Beijing is embarking on the "most significant" expansion of its footprint in Antarctica after new satellite images revealed ...

After years of consideration—and several COVID delays—my husband and I decided this was the year to attack our ...

On our way to and from an Antarctic adventure on the National Geographic Explorer vessel, my husband and ...

I have never been to the moon, or any other planet beyond, of course, Earth. But I do ...

Antarctica Believe it or not, this mostly undiscovered continent is getting busy. This year, a record 82 passenger ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has suspended all travel to Antarctica for at least two weeks following a ...

Australia will be reinforcing its strategic and scientific capabilities in the south pole while concerns loom of Chinese ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A 4 billion-year-old meteorite from Mars that caused a splash here on Earth decades ago contains ...

Chilean astronomer Patricio Rojo witnessed the total solar eclipse from the Chilean Antarctica that for nearly two minutes ...

Video released by NASA showed a total solar eclipse as seen from Western Antarctica on Saturday. The earth's ...

While the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) called July 2021 Earth’s hottest July in 142 years of ...

By Jami Ganz From New York Daily News The Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica, was officially recognized by ...

Australia, China and the US have collaborated on a mission to medically evacuate an Australian expeditioner from Antarctica. ...

A Canberra-based defence think tank is warning the federal government to take a more proactive approach to engaging ...

Here I am at last—I have made it to all seven continents—and finally I have arrived at the ...

Prominent supporters of the flat Earth idea have shown an interest in going to Antarctica to prove their ...