U.S. astronauts who return to the moon’s surface in the years ahead for the first time in more than half a century will have ...

Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko revealed plans in Cape Town for a groundbreaking stratospheric parachute jump over ...

Climate models suggest that climate change could reduce the Southern Ocean's ability to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2). However, ...

The skull fragment, found in 1985 on Yámana Beach, is believed to be the oldest known human remains from the South Pole ...

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the ...

Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole as glaciers start to flow faster and surface melting ...

For over one hundred years, it was assumed that the ice overwhelmed the rudder and created a large gash on the side of the ship. But a recent paper in the journal Polar Record faults the ship, and not ...

Monet Eliastam has been dragging two tires across beaches and through the woods the last couple years. But it’s not a fitness fad; it’s a quest to become the first American woman to ski solo and ...

S omething may be stirring in the world’s largest oceanic current. New research suggests that this vast conveyor belt of cold ...

Scientists say the iceberg could grind over the island's shelf, crushing underwater life. If it lodges at the island’s flank, it could remain a fixture for up to 10 years before the ice melts or ...

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's crew famously survived after the Endurance became stuck in ice in 1915. A researcher ...

Endurance, the wooden ship that Ernest Shackleton took to Antarctica in 1915, wasn't built to withstand frozen seas – and the ...