As Midwinter Day comes to Antarctica –- the darkest day of the year –- those spending the winter on the frozen continent will follow a tradition dating back more than a century to the earliest days of ...

Is this visitor to Antarctica going crazy or having a good time? Tim Bieber/Photodisc via Getty Images As Midwinter Day approaches in Antarctica – the longest and darkest day of the year – those ...

Antarctica remains the most mysterious continent on Earth — a frozen world of glaciers, hidden mountains, and untouched ...

Scientists have uncovered human remains beneath the Antarctic ice, a discovery that has the potential to reshape our ...

The piece of cranium, found in 1985 on Yámana Beach, is believed to be the oldest human remains ever discovered in the South Pole region, potentially dating back to the early 19th Century. The find ...

Humans have been recording the weather for thousands of years. Antarctic ice, however, has been at it for over a million. An international team of scientists has extracted a 1.74-mile-long (2.8 ...

Anyone who has hovered over a jigsaw puzzle for hours knows that sometimes you can’t figure out how two pieces fit together until you’ve placed all the pieces around them. The same holds true for ...

In 28 days it began. In 28 weeks it spread. In 28 years it evolved.

Mosquitoes have been discovered in Iceland for the first time in history. The country had long been one of the world's only ...

The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT), a Cambridge-based charity, announced its new Antarctic Team as it began a three-year mission to save Port Lockroy. The mission aimed to restore the site, which ...