The Polar Star (WAGB 10), a Seattle-based US Coast Guard Cutter, departed Friday for a months-long deployment to Antarctica.

Antarctica, the frozen continent at the edge of the world, is home to breathtaking mysteries and untouched landscapes. During ...

With the world’s polar regions melting at a dizzying rate, scientists have toyed with the idea of constructing giant ...

Normally, Gus should weigh about 100 pounds, but when he was found on that Australian beach, he only weighed 51 pounds. In ...

Picture Antarctica—not as an endless expanse of snow and ice, but as a lush, green rainforest teeming with towering trees and ...

Hundreds of concerned scientists came together in Australia recently to discuss how we can save Antarctica in what's being ...

The only emperor penguin known to have swum from Antarctica to Australia was released at sea 20 days after he waddled ashore ...

When scientists peered beneath one of Antarctica's floating ice shelves, they were surprised to find an upside-down landscape of peaks, valleys and plateaus. "We were surprised – we had to ...

Antarctica's melting ice could raise sea levels significantly. Scientists urge urgent greenhouse gas reductions globally.

Wow, a recent article in The Baltimore Sun reports that fragments of amber have been found in Antarctica and it was suggested ...

The only continent where amber had not been found no longer has that distinction, thanks to a sediment core drilled just ...

Scientists recently discovered amber fragments that suggest the snow-covered continent of Antarctica could have once been a ...