Four private astronauts on SpaceX's Fram2 mission captured stunning photos of Earth's poles for the first time in history.

The captivating footage was taken through the Dragon's Cupola, a unique, all-glass dome on SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, ...

Antarctica, the coldest and most remote continent, remains largely unexplored due to its extreme conditions. However, private ...

Chris Kirkland Our first target was an unusual layer of rocks known as the Antarctic Creek Member, which crops out on the ...

But where to start? Our first target was an unusual layer of rocks known as the Antarctic Creek Member, which crops out on the flanks of a dome some 20 kilometres in diameter. The Antarctic Creek ...

A tense situation among members of an isolated base in Antarctica could foretell conflicts among astronauts on a long distance journey to Mars. The South African Antarctic research base ...

The team may have also discovered several new species of organisms. "The discovery offers new insights into how ecosystems function beneath floating sections of the Antarctic ice sheet," SOI officials ...

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers ...

A new discovery of methane leaks in Antarctica could be a game-changer and potential near-term threat that’s difficult to characterize without sounding overly negative. Of course, situations ...

The discovery of fragments of an ancient continent deep beneath the surface of Antarctica has left scientists shocked. The data that revealed the continent has been collected from a gravity-mapping ...

The ice core from the drill head. Credit©PNRA_IPEV The ice cores were retrieved from Little Dome C, Antarctica, during the fourth drilling campaign of the international Beyond EPICA project. Over a ...