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 ...

Many photos McCarthy has taken of the space station in the past show the ship as a silhouette in Earth's shadow. This time he ...

A team of scientists from Bowling Green State University are currently en route to Antarctica in search of groundbreaking new data that could play a key role in the future of climate research.

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

Internet users want to know what the strange doorway in Antarctica ice is- theories suggesting Bigfoot or an underground ...

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

China is preparing to mark 30 years of polar expeditions, when on 20 February 1985 opened its first permanent research station in ... before sailing south to the Antarctic Peninsula.

A Google Earth sleuth claims to have found a figure that looks like an alien's face in the snow in Antarctica ... figure can be found on Google Maps when searching the coordinates 72°00'36.0 ...

Australian Antarctic Program scientists have released the most comprehensive database of species living in the ice-free areas of Antarctica, after 16 years of research. More than 35,600 records, some ...

Sydney, Jan 29 (IANS): Australian researchers have created a new detailed map of Antarctica's ice-free land that they say will help protect the continent's biodiversity. The team, led by researchers ...