Antarctica’s only native insect could provide inspiration for how humans could travel into deep space. The tiny midge called ...

Eric Xiaoyang Sun and Jennifer Sun Liu, a couple driven and united by wanderlust, recently got married at a remote location ...

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

A Pittsboro woman is living life to the fullest despite a heart condition that’s impacted a number of people in her family.  ...

Extreme precipitation events in Antarctica, which are mostly dominated by snowfall due to sub-zero temperatures, also include rainfall, according to new research.

I n the McMurdo Sound region of Antarctica, there lives a species of sponge known as the giant volcano sponge ( Anoxycalyx ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be ... a physical oceanographer at Sorbonne University in France, told Live Science in an email. The melting of a massive ice shelf like FRIS would ...

These tiny creatures may be no bigger than your little finger, but scientists plan to start counting them from space. Knowing ...