The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Trump administration and actions by ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...

All together, that makes a wonderful, very human, mess. Back in the 1960s, the United States Geological Survey stated: “There ...

PS Plus subscribers at all levels will be able to claim three games for free, including Blizzard's action RPG hit Diablo IV.

Somewhere between Google Earth glitches and ancient prophecy, a new kind of internet mystery has taken hold. It doesn’t come ...

The Russian official — until recently in charge of the firm that has stitched together vast maps of South Pole hydrocarbons — is helping negotiate Putin’s ‘scientific’ interests at the prestigious ...

The Antarctic Snow Cruiser was supposed to be a groundbreaking machine, allowing American explorers to traverse Antarctica and lay claim to uncharted territory. But despite its innovative ...

High above the windswept Ross Ice Shelf, a helium balloon the size of a football stadium drifts in the polar twilight. Slung beneath it is the Antarctic ...

A recent study found that four large glacier basins in East Antarctica have experienced substantial ice growth over the past ...

Was the movie Alien vs Predator correct? Is there really an ancient pyramid in Antarctica? If true, this would suggest it is millions of years older than Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, which is considered ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.