Parts of icy Antarctica are turning green with plant life as the region is gripped by extreme heat events, new research shows ...

Other research, including fossil studies, suggests that beech trees grew on Antarctica as recently as 2.5 million years ago, ...

A spacecraft that will hunt for signs of alien life on one of Jupiter’s icy moons has blasted off from Cape Canaveral, ...

Satellite images show that some areas in the north of Antarctica the once frozen continent is beginning to turn green as the ...

If you had to drop someone at the place in the ocean farthest from any speck of land—the remotest spot on Earth—where would ...

It is on the Brunt Ice Shelf, which is the floating protrusion of glaciers that have flowed off the Antarctic continent into ...

A British team will spend five months in Antarctica counting penguins and undertaking conservation work after signing up for one of the world's most remote jobs. The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT ...

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World maps are showing country sizes to be geographically inaccurate depending on their placement near the Poles due to the ...

The storm should arrive today or tomorrow, and could bring with it some brilliant aurorae.

An annular solar eclipse will create a “ring of fire” phenomenon in the sky over parts of South America on Wednesday. A ...

David Holland, a professor at NYU, elaborates on the melting Antarctic ecosystem driven by natural variability and ...