An international team of scientists has established the world's first glacier ice-core sanctuary near Concordia Station on ...

Keith’s note: Astrobiologist Dale Andersen is heading back in Antarctica at Lake Untersee in January-February 2026 for ...

New ‘Discovery Building’ at the UK’s Rothera Research Station formally opens, completing six-year construction project – on time and budget State-of- ...

A 2011 graduate of Point Loma High School, McKaveney recently returned from one of his most interesting and challenging ...

NASA's Suni Williams — one of two astronauts stuck for months at the International Space Station — has retired.

Min Jin Lee's new novel, “American Hagwon,” explores why Koreans are so focused on education. It's her first book since her acclaimed “Pachinko” and is scheduled for September. Hagwons are ...

Japanese premiere Sanae Takaichi may have extra trouble sleeping after she moved into the prime minister's official residence, where ghosts of Japanese soldiers from a century ago are reputed to ...

The clocks aboard our icebreaker will be changed several times en route to Antarctica. It’s one of many things that make the expedition feel otherworldly. By Raymond Zhong It was Sunday afternoon, our ...

The ice that now covers West Antarctica was not there 3.6 million years ago, after a massive collapse of the ice sheet during a warming period. Anna Ruth Halberstadt, CC BY-NC-ND Christine Siddoway, ...

Christine Siddoway received funding from the U.S. Science Support Program for IODP, and the National Science Foundation (grants 1939146 and 1917176, OPP Antarctic Earth Sciences) to support this ...

A strategic advantage in Antarctica could give China a critical advantage in space—as well as the opportunity to exploit the continent’s vast untapped natural resources. When asked who she believed ...

It’s been over two weeks since the Sun has set on Germany’s Neumayer III base in the Antarctic, due to the Earth’s axial tilt at the extreme locale. In that eerie landscape, the 16-year-old base has ...