A vivid blue iceberg drifting from Antarctica is drawing scientific attention as it is beginning to break apart.

The first cruise of Aurora Expeditions’ Douglas Mawson was to circumnavigate Tasmania but the weather led to a new itinerary.

A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way ...

Kicking off the year's cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years as well as a ...

Mars may have once possessed an ocean at least as large as Earth's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests. Previous research ...

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

The granddaddy of the U.S. Coast Guard fleet arrived this month at McMurdo Sound, in Antarctica, to clear channels for supply ships.

Glacial ice is vanishing, but what if we could freeze time? A daring mission in Antarctica may have just done exactly that.

Ice cores, compacted for centuries or even millennia, can shed precious light on Earth's ancient climate when studied by ...

Named 'Ice Memory Sanctuary,' the first-of-its-kind library maintains a record of ice cores from across the world.

Scientists on Wednesday sealed ancient chunks of glacial ice in a first-of-its-kind sanctuary in Antarctica in the hope of ...