Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

Antarctica’s only native insect could provide inspiration for how humans could travel into deep space. The tiny midge called ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

What's the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? A research team has uncovered the special ability of the Antarctic midge to prosper in an extreme environment.

In the summer, around a thousand people live at the base, the largest population in Antarctica. With its power station and its dormitories carved into the ice, the base has the look of a grimy ...

Research scientists in remote locations need to get creative in order to follow their favorite teams, even when they don’t ...

I n the McMurdo Sound region of Antarctica, there lives a species of sponge known as the giant volcano sponge ( Anoxycalyx ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

One hundred and twenty five thousand people visited Antarctica last year. Can the region cope with an ever growing tourism ...

These tiny creatures may be no bigger than your little finger, but scientists plan to start counting them from space. Knowing ...