The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured a striking up-close view of Earth's cosmic neighbor as it prepares in the days ahead ...

High above Earth's poles, intense electrical currents called electrojets flow through the upper atmosphere when auroras glow in the sky. These auroral electrojets push about a million amps of ...

The National Science Foundation has fired workers at the office that manages polar research, raising fears about a reduced ...

Climate change is warming the air and ocean around Antarctica, leading to faster and more frequent calving of icebergs.

An international team of scientists says Earth's glaciers are vanishing so fast they now release 273 billion tonnes of ice ...

The melting ice from glaciers worldwide is leading to an increased loss of regional freshwater resources. And it is causing ...

International researchers with the participation of Graz University of Technology present a global assessment of ice loss ...

The US Coast Guard first operated a polar icebreaker in the Antarctic when the Wind -Class icebreaker Northwind supported ...

Melting of the Greenland ice sheet is currently the primary driver of sea-level rise. For the first time, scientists from The Hong Kong Polytechnic ...

(He performed this bit of modern magic by calling, on his satellite phone ... remaining prize—a trans-Antarctica crossing. “From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar ...

A team of Spanish scientists exploring the Antarctic seabed has detected “massive emissions” of methane, a gas with a capacity to warm the planet around 30 times greater than carbon dioxide (CO₂). The ...

This striking satellite photo shows the unusual shape ... burst and triggered devastating floods in the river's valley. —Antarctica's 'Deception Island' is one of the only places on Earth ...