The Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance helped make a Colorado grandmother's dream come true this week. She got the chance to ...

Antarctica has lost sea ice equivalent in area to Greenland – and it has not returned, according to new satellite data. This ...

The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Trump administration and actions by ...

Researchers documented how cruise ship anchors can harm some of the oldest species of marine life in Antarctica.

Scientists say the phenomenon could “hint at” new particles or interactions between known particles that haven’t been ...

A tiny, obscure animal often sold as aquarium food has been quietly protecting our planet from global warming by undertaking ...

Thousands of miles from home and -75C cold: Life is tough in Antarctica even before death threats from scientists. After scientists at the South African Sanae IV research station pleaded for help ...

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that ...

Life in Antarctica during mid-winter is defined by its absence of daylight.As the Australian Antarctic Program describes it: "For a few weeks each year the sun fails to rise on the world's most ...

Antarctica appears sparse. Nothing but white ice, glaciers and harsh conditions that only a few animals have adapted to survive in.

Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular ...

But a team of scientists has created a new way to answer whether aliens exist. Daniel Apai, an astrophysicist and astrobiologist at the University of Arizona, studies exoplanets – worlds that orbit ...