America’s brainchild — may be humanity’s greatest geopolitical feat, governing the only continent never to see war. Now, as China pulls ahead in polar science, the US may be sabotaging its role in the ...

A teenager attempting to set a world flight record and raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has been ...

As glaciers melt around the world, long-dormant volcanoes may be waking up beneath the ice. New research reveals that massive ...

The melting of glaciers due to the climate crisis could make volcano eruptions more catastrophic than before, scientists ...

A 19-year-old self-taught aviator from Memphis was detained in Antarctica while attempting a solo flight to seven continents, ...

Melting glaciers may be silently setting the stage for more explosive and frequent volcanic eruptions in the future, ...

In a feedback of fire and ice, thinning ice sheets over geologic hot spots could allow more eruptions, while increased ...

Old Antarctic photos help University of Copenhagen scientists trace ice shelf collapse and predict future sea level rise.

Research involving the University of Liverpool has discovered a trend of increasing surface meltwater in East Antarctica. In ...

Long before European colonizers sighted the continent, legendary explorer Hui Te Rangiora may have seen Antarctica.

The Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance helped make a Colorado grandmother's dream come true this week. She got the chance to ...