Will Smith journeys from the South Pole to the North Pole, revealing surprising science, extreme adventures, and why Antarctica has a physical pole while the Arctic is defined by magnetism.

Ceirra Pipher turned 29 on a photography expedition aboard a sailboat at the southernmost spot in the world ...

The National Science Foundation's massive IceCube neutrino detector at the South Pole just got a major new upgrade, which promises to take the search for "ghost particles" to a new level.

Known unofficially as “military penguins,” a small but growing contingent of men have served on Ukraine's far-flung Antarctic ...

A football-field-sized balloon drifting above the Ross Ice Shelf has just turned Antarctica into one of the most ambitious listening posts in modern astrophysics. Over 23 days aloft, a University of ...

On a map, Antarctica reads like the final frontier, a place where the rules of the natural world work a little differently. The idea that an entire continent covered in ice qualifies as a desert doesn ...

When the Artemis mission lands on the Moon, its crew will have to grapple with a challenging environment and extreme ...

NASA's Artemis II is poised for the first lunar mission since 1972—with much more to come.

I’ll stick to games like The Long Dark and, indeed, Nova Antarctica for experiences like that. I’ve a fondness for survival games where the principal antagonist is the world around you. That is true ...

In a 25-word post on his Truth Social account, the president Friday questioned how the world can be warming when it is so cold, and called the temperatures nearly unprecedented. He also called ...

The South Pole is significantly colder than the North Pole due to its higher elevation and landmass, which is less influenced by ocean currents and temperatures.

A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might ...