However, Antarctic sea ice, which surrounds the south pole, has shrunk to a near-record low. On 25 February, the Antarctic sea ice reached its minimum extent for the year, covering 722,000 sq ...

"Humans have always brought their own interests to Antarctica," he says. In 1911, Roald Amundsen planted the Norwegian flag at the South Pole, where no one had set foot before. With this ...

Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Chun Wang and a team of three astronauts set off on a historic SpaceX flight Monday to explore ...

Fram2, the third private spaceflight purchased from SpaceX, is scheduled to launch no earlier than March 31st from Kennedy ...

The lower part of the map, which didn't have many places labeled, stood out to him, particularly Queen Maud Land, which is in East Antarctica ... Mountains to the South Pole, to kite-skiing ...

Nearer the pole, a series of deep subpolar lows is usually centred between latitudes 50-60 degrees South. A high pressure area over Antarctica-- associated with extremely cold and dense air is ringed ...

In the first study to consider the long-term evolution of the rivers that flow beneath glaciers, researchers have new ...

Exclusive: For Lodrick Hlungwane, who spent three years at the isolated base, a recent crisis there was disturbing—but not ...

Stanford researchers discovered that increased meltwater and rainfall account for 60% of the decades-long gap between ...

Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' ...

The Scenic Eclipse is one of only a few Antarctic vessels to carry a submarine. The submarine—the Scenic Neptune —can carry ...