Darren Edwards knows a lot about hopelessness; one minute, he was rock climbing in North Wales about to finish his route, and ...

Antarctica, often regarded as the planet's last true wilderness, harbors unique ecosystems that support extraordinary ...

The world’s biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica ...

A pilot explained why commercial planes don't fly over Antarctica, the fifth largest continent on Earth. There's a lot of ...

In 2017, scientists discovered amber in a sediment core from the Antarctic, and analysis since has revealed a startling truth ...

These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why penguins have waddled into our hearts ...

As I embarked the Seabourn Venture in Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world, I knew my mission to play golf ...

A pilot has deconstructed the mystery around why airplanes avoid flights over Antartica – and the reasoning may surprise you.

A Reddit user believes they’ve found a face peering back at them in a Google Earth image from Antarctica. The satellite ...

We know what highway we’re taking the next time we visit Antarctica — the one that a group of penguins travel each and every ...

Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking mainly due to frequent small calving events, while major iceberg break-offs remain rare ...

Citizen historians have spent decades searching for the original text of Shackleton’s advertisement. Now, some say it might ...