The Polar Star (WAGB 10), a Seattle-based US Coast Guard Cutter, departed Friday for a months-long deployment to Antarctica.

Antarctica, the frozen continent at the edge of the world, is home to breathtaking mysteries and untouched landscapes. During ...

With the world’s polar regions melting at a dizzying rate, scientists have toyed with the idea of constructing giant ...

Normally, Gus should weigh about 100 pounds, but when he was found on that Australian beach, he only weighed 51 pounds. In ...

Hundreds of concerned scientists came together in Australia recently to discuss how we can save Antarctica in what's being ...

Antarctica's melting ice could raise sea levels significantly. Scientists urge urgent greenhouse gas reductions globally.

Wow, a recent article in The Baltimore Sun reports that fragments of amber have been found in Antarctica and it was suggested ...

The only emperor penguin known to have swum from Antarctica to Australia was released at sea 20 days after he waddled ashore ...

The only continent where amber had not been found no longer has that distinction, thanks to a sediment core drilled just ...

The Royal New Zealand Air Force has conducted its first Lockheed Martin C-130J tactical transport flight to Antarctica.

Scientists have discovered amber in the sediment core recovered from thousands of feet below the surface of the Antarctic, a ...

Scientists recently discovered amber fragments that suggest the snow-covered continent of Antarctica could have once been a ...