The Thoen Stone from the Black Hills of South Dakota appears to be a gold prospector's desperate final message, but it ...

Beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf lies one of the least measured oceans on Earth—a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the ...

We explore the trends — from nautical nostalgia to silent sailings — making waves in the coming year and beyond.

Bad weather has postponed attempts to set up camp on the Thwaites Glacier. So researchers got onto the sea ice and met a local.

About 190 million years ago, a large plant-eating dinosaur roamed the ancient forests of Antarctica. Its bones remained buried for ages beneath the Beardmore Glacier in the Transantarctic Mountains ...

The New York Times is on an expedition to study Antarctica’s fastest-thinning glaciers. CreditCredit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times For much of January and February, Raymond Zhong, a New York Times ...

Australia-based Aurora Expeditions' fleet grew to three ships this month with the launch of the 154-passenger Douglas Mawson. With added capacity, the Antarctica specialist is broadening itineraries ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - When polar explorer Robert Swan leads his Ice Station Expedition to Antarctica in December, Big Island teenager Eric Gee will be in that group making the journey to the ...

An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old. The goal of the French duo is to better ...

During an expedition to search for a famed shipwreck, researchers discovered something unexpected: striking geometric patterns on the floor of Antarctica’s western Weddell Sea created by fish. The ...