Most of the expeditions are still waiting to begin, but the two solo crossings are in progress. Equipment problems are ...

Do you believe people become healthier when they listen to music? And when they sing? Or play an instrument? Or visit a ...

That's because the star is closely aligned with Earth's polar axis, meaning it's almost directly above the North Pole. For that reason ... anywhere in the world (except perhaps Antarctica). With the ...

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments ...

Norse Atlantic plans to complete a total of four charters to Antarctica, all dedicated to supporting scientific research.

Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life. But this wasn't always the case. Ninety million years ago, it ...

The discovery of fossilised plant 'blood' - once prized as a gemstone - shows what lived on the continent before it was all ...

The atmosphere is constantly changing. Its composition has varied regularly over the course of the planet's climatic epochs, ...