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 ...
In the unforgiving polar wilderness, scientists go to great lengths to safeguard the devices that gather precious data.
Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests. New evidence of ...
Beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf lies one of the least measured oceans on Earth—a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea.
ESA's first mission to another world, the Mars Express orbiter, began circling the Red Planet on June 2, 2003. Ever since, ...
Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...
Wearing a trademark deep blue space overalls and sporting a pair of space-themed canvas shoes, Williams, 60, strode into an auditorium full of Indian youths to a loud cheer, and later actively engaged ...
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 ...
A powerful magnetic eruption on the sun has triggered the strongest solar radiation storm in more than 20 years, while also ...
It looks like a sapphire jewel in space, but HD 189733bis anything but serene. With winds reaching seven times the speed of ...