On the ship I boarded at the bottom of Argentina with the three men I love most, I put my socks in a drawer, my sweaters on a ...

You’ve heard of a dry landing and a wet landing. But what about an ice landing?

Navigating monolithic icebergs, massive ocean waves and sub-zero snowstorms, CSIRO research vessel (RV) Investigator is a workhorse for Antarctic science. In just over 11 years and spread across seven ...

Antarctica, the coldest, emptiest, highest, windiest continent on earth, is the most beautiful place I’ve ever been. At ...

Remains of the McCloud Glacier, 2024, photographed by Prof Pete Convey. "Note the clear nunatak at the mid-right of the glacier," said Convey. "This is named 'Manhaul Rock' and, when I was first on ...

Mining is banned on the frozen continent. But new research suggests that could change as ice melts and land and valuable minerals are exposed. By Eric Niiler Prospectors are scouring the Pacific Ocean ...

Sleeper sharks live extraordinarily long lives and can thrive in near-freezing ocean temperatures near Earth's poles. Scientists with the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre captured footage of a ...

The Pentagon has secured $194 million to build the first of a fleet of new ski planes that will support troops flying over the Arctic and Antarctic. Funding approved by Congress last month includes ...

In November, scientists arrived at the South Pole in planes outfitted with skis to pull off a construction project seven years in the making. They had a short summer window — November to early ...

Screenshot from the footage of a sleeper shark seen in Antarctica's waters Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Center Sharks are ancient creatures—even older than land dinosaurs—and they’ve evolved to swim ...

When Linda Perry recorded her version of “Beautiful,” the 2002 hit she wrote and gave to Christina Aguilera, she thought she was just revisiting an old song. As she dug into the grooves of that ode to ...

Researchers have drilled the deepest Antarctic sediment core ever, uncovering 23 million years of climate history beneath the ice sheet. This is SWAIS2C’s first drilling attempt, but unfortunately, ...