Operation Highjump was an enormous U.S. military expedition to Antarctica that began in December 1946 and ultimately lasted ...

Cracking the chicken-and-egg problem of utilizing resources in space has been a difficult challenge for over half a century.

The 1912 vessel, built in Norway and initially christened Polaris, is represented in Lego form by 3,011 pieces and a building ...

In 2010, palaeontologist James Crampton discovered a partial ichthyosaur skeleton while working on Coverham Station in the ...

Earth-observation satellites deliver data for a wealth of applications - from monitoring climate change and documenting war crimes to planning ...

The map has an intriguing and detailed layout that takes a couple of pointers from the real-world map. For example, the infamous Dark Web can be found on the south end of the map where Antarctica ...

For some intrepid travelers to Antarctica, crossing the infamous Drake Passage — a 600-mile stretch of open sea between the tip of South America and the northern Antarctic Peninsula that’s ...

A mere 90 million years ago, Antarctica was a radically different place. Instead of being a polar desert characterized by ...

Quark Expeditions helicopter pilot Jonathan Mutch is working his third season in Antarctica, flying high-paying tourists to some of the planet's remotest places. Mutch told Business Insider that ...

In the heart of Antarctica’s Victoria Land, hidden under 14 meters of thick ice, lies Lake Enigma, a body of water long ...

Antarctica is losing ice quickly, in part because of climate change.Massive calving events, such as the one that formed the Delaware-sized (5,800 square kilometers, or 2,239 square miles) A-68 ...

Advertisement The president's trip was meant to reinforce Chile's claim to sovereignty in part of Antarctica. Con el orgullo de haber vivido una experiencia histórica, a más de 20 grados bajo ...