For most, a trip to Antarctica is well beyond reach, but a new exhibition at the National Museum of Australia gives visitors ...

The wonder material, plastic, was all the rage a few decades ago. Now, it’s destroying the planet. Humans cannot figure out how to dispose of plastic once used, and a majority of it ends up in ...

An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old. The goal of the French duo is to better ...

A long-line of Pensacola aviators have visited the Antarctic, including both the first man to fly there and the first man to land there. Antarctic geographical features named after ...

The remains of an Antarctic explorer who went missing more than 60 years ago have been found — with his emotional brother saying his sibling had finally “come home.” Dennis “Tink” Bell, a British ...

ABOARD THE ICEBREAKER ARAON, in the Amundsen Sea — To recruit the Antarctic expedition’s newest deputy scientist, Ji-Yeon Cheon had to approach the candidate carefully, from behind. Step by gentle ...

In early February, a group of six, three men and three women, embarked on a 45-day expedition in Antarctica to test Astroskin, a smart shirt prototype developed by Carre Technologies for the Canadian ...

British adventurer Henry Worsley died while trying to make history by crossing the Antarctic alone in a trip backed by members of the royal family, his wife said. Worsley, 55, was just 30 miles (48 ...

The chance to travel to the farthest corner of the planet, the Antarctic continent, is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for most people. It’s the last frontier on Earth, a place where explorers such ...

Researchers recently discovered that a long-misidentified Antarctic "danger zone" was actually an island — and have now mapped it for the first time. The discovery was announced in an April press ...