These destinations on Earth simulate some of the most stressful parts of space travel, and help astronauts survive in extreme ...

A ntarctica isn’t a floating chunk of ice like the Arctic. Beneath its frozen surface sits a solid continent of mountains, ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...

Newly recovered satellite data reveals a lost continent beneath Antarctica, shedding light on Earth’s ancient geological past.

The final results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer the sharpest, most sensitive view of the early cosmos that ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured this stunning long-exposure view of Earth and stars from space at night from the ...

A scientist at a South Africa-run research base in Antarctica sent a desperate email to the government, alleging that a team ...

An AI-generated image of a straight divide between a city and a verdant forest has been shared thousands of times around the ...

In 1929, Richard Byrd became the first pilot to fly an airplane over the South Pole. With fewer restrictions and capabilities ...

Hidden in the stormy Furious Fifties, the South Sandwich Islands generate spectacular cloud formations. Winds sweeping past ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...