An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

An international team of scientists completed a study that shows how the southern migration of the westerly winds and a ...

Discover why Antarctica is the driest continent on Earth, with an average annual precipitation of just 50 millimetres.

While colder temperatures have been recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica (minus 128.6 degrees on July 21, 1983) and Klink Station, Greenland (minus 93.3 degrees on Dec. 22, 1991), Oymyakon's coldest ...

When Eric Sun and Jennifer Liu, avid travelers who met in college, decided to marry, there was one continent left on their ...

Saying yes to an Antartica cruise was a leap of faith for one editor. Here, she details how it changed her for good and also ...

When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to shape and change the world.” ...

She is battling winds of 90 kilometres, but the situation “is under control”. The vessel was on its way back from Antarctica when one of the engines failed “causing serious propulsion ...