As Trump pulls back from regulations on climate change, many scientists remain worried about the warming of the oceans, melting glaciers and sea level rise. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien has ...

After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on ...

Finding out what actually happened in the deep past can be a slog, so when ancient history is packaged as mystery—spine-tingling but solvable—it’s hard to resist. Who doesn’t want to know how a lost ...

The findings, detailed in a new study published in the journal Science, could represent a novel method of probing the Antarctic ice that could be instrumental in predicting the frigid continent’s fate ...

new video loaded: A Century of The New York Times in Antarctica transcript Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong takes a trip into the New York Times archives to see how our understanding of Antarctica ...

Check out the Release Date Trailer for Nova Antarctica, a sci-fi survival exploration adventure game developed by RxLabo and Parco Games. Players will take in the serene landscapes amongst the ...

In the endless white expanse, a small mound broke the horizon. As explorer Matthieu Tordeur and glaciologist Heïdi Sevestre skied towards it, they saw a golden head emerging from the snow. It was the ...

A cube-shaped skull that was discovered in Mexico provides rare insight into a 1,400-year-old Mesoamerican civilization’s social practices — which included deliberate deformation. The skull belonged ...

Scott Wallace was a traveling salesman who made his headquarters in Sikeston in 1925. History doesn’t record exactly what he peddled, except for a wild story of an “ancient city” located in a 40-acre ...

Thanh-Son Pham receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the northern hemisphere ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scholars studying ancient sites in ...

A tiny robot explorer traversed the vast, frigid waters of Antarctica—even diving under the ice at one point. After miraculously surviving all that, the robot brought back souvenirs for scientists. In ...