Ethan Guo, a 19-year-old aviator from Memphis, was detained and charged with submitting a false flight plan before traversing ...

Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

Amanda Anisimova, who before our very eyes was thrashed in the Wimbledon singles final, delivered such a magnificent speech ...

The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Trump administration and actions by ...

A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...

An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the ...

Research involving the University of Liverpool has discovered a trend of increasing surface meltwater in East Antarctica. In ...

That's how Lieutenant Commander Shinn recalled finding out he had been chosen to land at the South Pole. A WW2 veteran, Shinn joined the American Naval Antarctic exploration efforts "just to get ...

An ancient landscape, likely once home to rivers and forests, has been found beneath a mile of ice in Antarctica. The area, untouched for more than 34 million years, covers around 12,000 square miles ...

America’s brainchild — may be humanity’s greatest geopolitical feat, governing the only continent never to see war. Now, as China pulls ahead in polar science, the US may be sabotaging its role in the ...

What we saw in the DESI experiments, and now strengthened by our South Pole Telescope observations, is that dark energy is ...

As Midwinter Day approaches in Antarctica – the longest and darkest day of the year – those spending the winter on the frozen continent will follow a tradition dating back more than a century to the ...