Darren Edwards knows a lot about hopelessness; one minute, he was rock climbing in North Wales about to finish his route, and ...

Antarctica, often regarded as the planet's last true wilderness, harbors unique ecosystems that support extraordinary ...

Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes that control the fate of the sheet occur on an incredibly small scale ...

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A pilot explained why commercial planes don't fly over Antarctica, the fifth largest continent on Earth. There's a lot of ...

A peculiar satellite image of Antarctica has sparked fresh debate over the existence of extraterrestrial life. A Google Earth ...

As I embarked the Seabourn Venture in Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world, I knew my mission to play golf ...

These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why penguins have waddled into our hearts ...

A pilot has deconstructed the mystery around why airplanes avoid flights over Antartica – and the reasoning may surprise you.

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A Reddit user believes they’ve found a face peering back at them in a Google Earth image from Antarctica. The satellite ...

Antarctica’s eerie Blood Falls puzzled scientists worldwide. Was it a frozen crime scene, ancient bacteria, or something even ...