Every year, a few thousand people deploy to live on Antarctic research stations — and go through punishing survival training ...

With US investment in polar science under threat, scientists hope that China’s interest in the region will benefit research.

A team of scientists analyzed 23 snow samples and found chemical substances commonly used in our daily routines. The mystery: how did they get there?

The internet has long been home to conspiracy theories, some with more evidence behind them than others. But while internet ...

Mr Guo was taken into custody after landing on King George Island, home to a number of international research stations and their staffs, where July temperatures typically stay well below freezing. Mr ...

The unexploded ordnance beneath one of Antarctica’s many penguin colonies probably poses no risk to humans working nearby. While this may seem like a crazy sentence to write, it accurately reflects ...

S4, a $900-million cosmology experiment, would answer one of the greatest questions in physics. Instead it’s become another cautionary tale of pursuing big science amid shrinking budgets ...

The Coast Guard’s Polar Security Cutter program received $4.3 billion under the federal budget bill, but it isn’t expected to deliver its first new ship until 2030 at the earliest.

Parts of southeast Australia experienced their coldest June in decades, with the ACT, southeast NSW and the Southern ...

Big freeze sends temperatures plunging lower than parts of Antarctica Bone-chilling nights during June sent thermometers plummeting across southeast Australia. But the forecast points to a warmer ...

Humphrey School Alumnus Kalvin Moschkau Goes to Mongolia for Conservation Work, Thanks to a Luce Scholarship. He earned his ...

However, as academics who research the effects of time on human psychology and biology, our ongoing work with crew members at research stations in Antarctica aims to shed light on whether waiting ...