Antarctica is like no place on Earth. The "White Continent" has lured explorers and scientists to its stunning, ice-encrusted landscape for two centuries. Countries have tried ... the Antarctic ...

Countries have tried to carve up Antarctica and lay claim ... important" because "it declared the Antarctic continent and surrounding ocean a nuclear weapons-free zone." Remarkably, for more ...

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin feathers. And now, after a decade-long analysis, Sontag and his colleagues ...

Antarctica's remote and mysterious current ... This stability persists despite melting of surrounding ice, a phenomenon that had not been fully explored in scientific discussions in the past.

After more than a week of delays, two new NASA missions have gotten the greenlight to head to space tonight (March 8).

This June will be 10 years since he died, and it would have been special to share this trip to Antarctica with him ... about any rules or regulations surrounding the spreading of ashes.

Up until approximately 10,000–8,000 years ago, the Furneaux Group of Islands and King Island in Bass Strait, as they are now known, would have been a mountain range in a surrounding plain.

For centuries, the world has accepted the idea that Earth is divided into seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe ... suggests that Iceland and the surrounding underwater ridge are ...

The team modeled Antarctica's ... Earth's Inner Core Is ... of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated the environment ...

He hunted for birds’ nests, marking their locations on a map ... Antarctica, the more forbidding it seemed. The continent is nearly five and a half million square miles—larger than Europe ...