The Orion constellation is home to some of the most luminous stars in our Milky Way galaxy. When you purchase through links ...

National Geographic joined an expedition to understand the mysterious creatures of the ice-locked southern continent.

There are growing concerns the treaty that has protected the last great wilderness for nearly 70 years may not hold as the old rules-based world order disintegrates along with the sea ice.

When a former Powell resident crossed paths with U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., at her workplace two weeks ago, it wasn’t the chance encounter that was necessarily unusual, ...

Keith’s note: Astrobiologist Dale Andersen is heading back in Antarctica at Lake Untersee in January-February 2026 for ...

A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way among many that climate change is transforming life at the bottom of the ...

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the world conducting field research in Antarctica this season. The traditional ...

Some regions of the continent have enough ice to push up sea levels by 15 metres if they all melt, but researchers don’t yet fully understand the consequences ...

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Scientists reached Antarctic bedrock after drilling 1.7 miles through more than a million years of ice deposits on the white continent. “The objectives of this campaign present unprecedented ...

In some parts of the world, summer passes without real night. Because of their position on the globe, the sun stays above the horizon for weeks at a time. Daily routines adjust in simple, practical ...

When an underwater earthquake rattles deep below Antarctica’s icy waters, the motion may set off a chain reaction that causes tiny organisms called phytoplankton to rapidly multiply at the ocean ...