To get there in complete darkness in these extreme cold temperatures is very, very rare. I believe it hasn’t been done before ...

A joint US-Indian space satellite has captured what appears to be a huge magenta-green hummingbird engraved in Antarctica's ...

A married couple who are pilots flew into -43C temperatures to rescue an American who had fallen ill in Antarctica.

Woods Hole researchers took 3-D underwater images of the Quest, the final ship of Ernest Shackleton, and Terra Nova, the ...

The record-setting cold at the Concordia research station comes just weeks after another part of the southernmost continent ...

A ten-month Antarctic experiment found that astronauts may struggle not only with loneliness but also with spending too much ...

According to experts, last year the penguins left Galindez Island in the first half of May, while this year, in the middle of the Antarctic winter, biologists from the 31st expedition recorded up to 4 ...

Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton were comrades on their first Antarctic adventure but the expedition would sow the seeds of ...

Winters in Antarctica's Ross Sea have become stormier in recent decades, affecting sea-ice conditions and field operations, ...

A satellite launched last year returned a stunning image of Antarctica's frozen tundra. It appears to capture a hummingbird, but what is it really?

American rescued from Antarctic base in rare midwinter rescue - The sun last set at the geographic South Pole on March 23 and ...

A US expeditioner in Antarctica was rescued last month in a daring mid-winter medical evacuation by an Australian aviation ...