Isolation, frigid temperatures and old food are small prices to pay for the opportunity to do research in Antarctica.

A crew of four private astronauts have become the first to ever fly over the Earth's poles in space, gaining a sublime view ...

"But Antarctica is not an apolitical human paradise with untouched nature—a sort of continent for scientific inquiry alone.

A new study found parts of Antartica could pass a tipping point for mass ice sheet losses as soon as 2050 – pushing sea ...

For most of the year, South Africa's SANAE IV research station is one of the most isolated places on Earth: cut off from the ...

Fram2 crew was surprised to not see any evidence of human activity at the South Pole from 285 miles above. For the first time ...

President Donald Trump unexpectedly announced a new 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands, which are uninhabited by ...

Some of the more sparsely populated territories in the world that do little trade with the United States have been caught up ...

Stanford researchers discovered that increased meltwater and rainfall account for 60% of the decades-long gap between ...

The Scenic Eclipse is one of only a few Antarctic vessels to carry a submarine. The submarine—the Scenic Neptune —can carry ...