Sudden onset blindness spurred Mark Pollock to become an adventure athlete, and when a fall from a second-story window ...

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

From the Moon’s south pole to an ice-covered ocean world, these space missions are slated for 2024 A planetary scientist shares six of the space missions she's most excited to follow this year ...

National Science Foundation, March 1, 2017, Airplane taxis down runway at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; National Snow and Ice Data Center, accessed Dec. 23, Ice shelves; ...

Those who live at the South Pole approach the ice with a sense of awe that borders on religious conviction . By John Messick . Published May 29, 2023 3:59PM (EDT ...

On the Moon’s South Pole, a Quest for Ice. India’s first lunar orbiter, Chandrayaan-1, collected some of the data that confirmed the presence of water on the moon. Share full article.

The researchers on South Africa’s SANAE IV outpost won’t be relieved until December, when temperatures at the South Pole are at their warmest for the year and seasonal ice storms pass.

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, is the first to venture into a ...

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 ...

In recent years, scientists have focused on the potential of the lunar south pole as a vast source of water ice. Now, new observations from China’s Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical ...

At the South Pole, there’s a science experiment that makes the Burj Khalifa—the world’s tallest building—look small. It’s called IceCube, and it’s built 2,500 meters down into the ...

A Dartmouth grad student is on a mission to find the oldest ice on the planet and to find it — he’s joined a team of scientists at the South Pole. Wind speeds there average 40 mph and ...