A U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker assisted an Antarctica cruise ship after shifting pack ice slowed its voyage, allowing it to ...

Given that I was on holiday and not seeking the commercial advantage of a trade shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific ...

A US Coast Guard crew helps free the Scenic Eclipse II after the cruise ship became stuck in dense ice while sailing through ...

Declassified files and rare interviews reveal the shocking reality of Nazi Germany's Antarctic expeditions. From hidden technology and covert U-boat missions to Admiral Byrd's mysterious postwar ...

After an Antarctic adventure, Ben Tollerene returned from burnout to dominate poker’s biggest events, banking $21 million in ...

In the unforgiving polar wilderness, scientists go to great lengths to safeguard the devices that gather precious data.

Low clouds have lifted long enough for helicopters to ferry scientists and their gear to a fast-melting glacier on the edge ...

Unfortunately for planet hunters, Mercury, Venus and Mars are all too close to the sun to observe; they will come out of the ...

An Australian national science agency called CSIRO launched an experiment in Antarctica that went terribly wrong — in a way that ended up going wonderfully right. A free-floating ocean robot was sent ...

Sleep is one of the most mysterious, yet ubiquitous components of our biology. It has been described in all major groups of animals, including worms, jellyfish, insects or cephalopods, and in all ...

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 ...

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that helped release long-stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Deep-sea ...