An international team of scientists working in the remotest part of Antarctica have discovered that liquid water locked deep under the continent’s ice sheet regularly...
Lake Vida isn’t a particularly accommodating place to live. Oxygen is completely absent and what little liquid water exists in this frozen block of ice...
A complicated international air operation coordinated by the U.S. Antarctic Program, which is managed by the National Science Foundation, has successfully evacuated a badly injured...
More than 250 people labor at the South Pole each austral summer, supporting and conducting a dizzying array of scientific research. But scientists aren’t the...
The theory of inflation holds that just a fraction of a second after the universe exploded into existence, it expanded exponentially. The search for the...
Scott Sternbach’s portraits of those who work in the Antarctic might have been torn from the pages of history. Only the Carhartts, the synthetic fleeces...
Paleontologist Stephen Hasiotis and his team of ‘time trackers’ found tracks, burrows and other trace evidence of animals that lived in Antarctica more than 200...