Ever wondered why planes often fly over the North Pole but almost never cross the South Pole? It all comes down to logistics, ...

Some microbes happily thrive in unforgiving environments. An extremophile hunt is underway to leverage their resilience ...

On a brutally cold Halloween evening in 1956, a plane landed at the ice-covered bottom of the Earth, touching down at the ...

Nellie Huang has seen more of the world than most, but there's only one place she calls home. Here's why she decided to live ...

The Gonatus antarcticus squid, a mysterious squid found only in the frigid waters around Antarctica, was caught on camera on ...

A fossilized colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa.

Scientists previously estimated that the total emperor penguin population declined about 10% across all of Antarctica over ...

Emperor penguin populations​ in Antartica may be declining faster than the most pessimistic predictions, according to a new ...

William Shatner is recounting the time he spoke with a 'diplomatic pooper' penguin while on an expedition in Antarctica with ...

A groundbreaking study published in Nature Communicationspredicts that by 2100, the frequency of atmospheric rivers impacting ...

The colorful animal was about 3 feet long and covered in “fresh-looking sucker marks” and “scratches,” researchers said. It ...