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 ...

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests. New evidence of ...

Watching a massive whale breach the surface of the ocean is a moment that stays with you forever, but you do not necessarily ...

To say that humans have dominated this planet would be an understatement.

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 ...

A mysterious bar-shaped cloud of iron has been discovered inside the iconic Ring Nebula by a European team led by astronomers ...

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