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 ...

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

Discover how the Antarctic midge, Antarctica's only native insect, survives extreme cold through unique adaptations.

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

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.

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 slab of ...

The world's largest 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 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 ...