The Ice Memory Foundation, a consortium of European research institutes, inaugurated the frozen sanctuary on Wednesday at the ...

People, things, and places are named for many different reasons, but how did the Arctic and the Antarctic get their names?

Scientists compared ice behavior in West Antarctica and East Antarctica — two massive ice sheets once thought to respond ...

Part of Pine Island Glacier collapsed several years ago, forming an unstable inlet where no ship had sailed. Until now.

This general practitioner, Leonid Rogozov, had interrupted his training to become a surgeon in order to join the Sixth Soviet ...

On Feb. 17, 2026, a rare “ring of fire” annular solar eclipse will be visible for 2 minutes over Antarctica, with a partial ...

While US designs on Greenland are entirely deliberate, withdrawal of influence in Antarctica appears to be accidental. Could ...

The majority of Antarctica is covered in a thick sheet of ice, but what lies beneath its frozen surface has largely remained ...

Richard Parks, a world record setting explorer, reveals the gadgets behind the first episode of National Geographic’s Pole to ...

On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples ...

Journey to the world’s most brutal climates, from Antarctica’s frozen plateaus to Siberian villages. Discover how humans ...

Up to 98 percent of Antarctica is caked in miles-thick ice sheets, some of which formed millions upon millions of years ago.