A new satellite communications system at the South Pole will help keep science data flowing after an older satellite operating well past its prime succumbs...
Scientists, diplomats and others involved in supporting research in Antarctica and the Arctic converged in Baltimore, Md., this month for the 32nd Antarctic Treaty Consultative...
Antarctica is more accessible than ever before to scientists. But there are still places too dangerous, too remote or simply too expensive to send people...
The National Science Foundation is seeking an 8.5 percent increase in funding for the 2010 fiscal year, with large investments requested in the Office of...
The International Polar Year has officially ended, but it appears the National Science Foundation is only getting started in West Antarctica, with several large-scale research...
A small handful of Antarctic winter-overs has the specialized task of ensuring ongoing research experiments hum along between summer field seasons. These are the research...
The thousand-mile haul between the U.S. Antarctic Program research stations at McMurdo and South Pole is already a reality. Now the USAP is looking to...
Maps of Antarctica date back to the days of Roman geographer and astronomer Ptolemy, most of them widely creative but inaccurate until the 19th century....