In the endless white expanse, a small mound broke the horizon. As explorer Matthieu Tordeur and glaciologist Heïdi Sevestre skied towards it, they saw a golden head emerging from the snow. It was the ...

An Australian national science agency called CSIRO launched an experiment in Antarctica that went terribly wrong — in a way that ended up going wonderfully right. A free-floating ocean robot was sent ...

The New York Times is on an expedition to study Antarctica’s fastest-thinning glaciers. CreditCredit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times For much of January and February, Raymond Zhong, a New York Times ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning ...

Christine Siddoway received funding from the U.S. Science Support Program for IODP, and the National Science Foundation (grants 1939146 and 1917176, OPP Antarctic Earth Sciences) to support this ...

Before a space telescope ever reaches orbit, and long after satellites are up there, NASA has another way to do frontier science: high-altitude scientific balloons. These balloons can loft instruments ...

"Even if you get to the center, you'll never get out again!" Fathom Entertainment has unveiled a new trailer for the classic Jim Henson fantasy adventure movie Labyrinth, which is celebrating its 40th ...

Lillian Lanning Henson passed away at her home on December 13, 2025 at the age of 82. She was a long-time resident of Knoxville Tennessee and especially well known in the Karns Community. She taught ...

To survive the bitter cold, Antarctica’s native residents adorn themselves with thick layers of fat and fur. A non-biting midge, on the other hand, has only a soft shell to shield itself—but that ...

A global research team led by researchers from the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment has found that Antarctica's only native insect is already ingesting ...

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that helped release long-stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Deep-sea ...