The final results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer the sharpest, most sensitive view of the early cosmos that ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured this stunning long-exposure view of Earth and stars from space at night from the International Space Station.

Newsweek has created a map that lays bare the isolation of a South African research base in Antarctica where a team is reportedly trapped with a colleague who has become violent.

A scientist at a South Africa-run research base in Antarctica sent a desperate email to the government, alleging that a team ...

An AI-generated image of a straight divide between a city and a verdant forest has been shared thousands of times around the ...

Stanford researchers have uncovered a critical missing piece in the complex puzzle of Antarctica’s ice movement, using machine learning and high-resolution satellite data. Their findings, published in ...

In 1929, Richard Byrd became the first pilot to fly an airplane over the South Pole. With fewer restrictions and capabilities ...

Stanford researchers have integrated machine learning with high-resolution satellite and aerial observations to analyze the ...

Hidden in the stormy Furious Fifties, the South Sandwich Islands generate spectacular cloud formations. Winds sweeping past ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

A groundbreaking new map,Bedmap3, has provided the most detailed view yet of the hidden landscape beneath Antarctica’s ice ...

A new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed.