Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation ...

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

NASA's Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) is preparing to explore the moon's subsurface and analyze where ...

A parliamentary report has called on for a second icebreaking vessel and more reliable funding for Antarctic research.

A new study focuses on improving global temperature data sets in light of uneven warming across the globe. To fill gaps in ...

Researchers report that a great time to see these clouds from Gale Crater, where Curiosity is located, is the early Autumn. Videos from the rover’s MastCam show the clouds changing colors as the night ...

The trillion-ton slab of ice that scientists call a "megaburg" broke off from the Antarctic’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986. Scientists catalogued it under the name A23a. It was stuck at sea for decades ...

Iceberg A23a has been a concern for scientists since it broke away from the Antarctic ice shelf in 1986 ... wildlife Meijers told AFP News. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ...

The gigantic wall of ice is moving slowly from Antarctica on a potential collision course with South Georgia, a crucial wildlife breeding ground in the South Atlantic. Satellite imagery suggested ...

The world’s biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that’s home to millions of penguins and seals. The trillion-ton ...