An expeditioner has provided a glimpse into the “incredible” life at one of the world’s most remote worksites – Antarctica.

A major international competition to design a new scientific research station at one of the Earth’s most extreme environments – Antarctica – is launched this week by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and ...

Antarctica is by far the coldest area on the planet. The coldest temperature recorded on Earth was recorded at Vostok, the Russian Antarctica research station in July 1983, when the temperature ...

Five years ago electrical engineer Sun Hongbin was given what many would consider an impossible task: build a full-fledged clean-energy system amid some of the coldest temperatures on Earth, screaming ...

Earlier this week, reports emerged that a scientist at South Africa's SANAE IV Antarctic research base had accused a colleague of physical assault. We research Antarctic governance and crime in ...

China on Saturday launched its 42nd Antarctic expedition to conduct deep drilling experiments aimed at studying the ...

Image: The tanker Lawrence H. Gianella sits alongside the ice pier at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Overcoming challenging ice conditions, a ship has safely delivered cargo needed to supply National ...

You may think your commute is brutal, but what does it take to get to your job at the most remote place on Earth? It turns out, quite a lot. Wired recently recounted the trials and tribulations of ...

There has been a research station at the Brunt Ice Shelf in the Antarctic since 1957, when the Royal Society led an expedition there. Halley VI, opened last February, is the first one to have the ...

A new Houston-Australian partnership is looking to use the extreme conditions of Antarctica to advance health research as astronauts prepare for trips to the moon and Mars. In both space and the South ...

WASHINGTON — Three people needing medical care were airlifted out from a U.S. scientific base in Antarctica this week during a perilous rescue mission. The Royal New Zealand Air Force conducted the ...

Last week, Chilean President Gabriel Boric became the first Latin American leader to visit the South Pole. Boric traveled from Punta Arenas, his home region at the southern tip of Chile, to Chile’s ...