Antarctica is a place rife with opportunities for discovery, but strangely enough, the discovery of the continent itself is something of a contested topic.

Miami’s stripey pink and yellow beach parasols dwindled as our ship sailed into the sunset, and the lifeguards’ huts shrank to colourful confetti specks on the sand. A deep-water kayaker gave us a ...

Some remote regions will experience a partial solar eclipse on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025. The best places to see it will be in ...

The temperature hit minus 80 degrees at Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska, on Jan. 23, 1971, which is located north of Fairbanks.

Get ready for a deep partial solar eclipse on March 29, 2025, which will occur at sunrise in North America and mid-morning ...

A Roman fortress, then a Viking stronghold, followed by a Medieval wool-trading center, then an Industrial railway hub, and ...

Deep under the frozen desert of western Antarctica, a hidden danger slumbers. Lurking beneath the massive, 1–2 kilometer-thick slab of frozen water lies an active volcanic rift, seething away in the ...

The Ann Arbor couple were among 130 guests who sailed the Drake Passage to Antarctica, visiting otherworldly landscapes mostly inhabited by seals and penguins, before flying back to South America ...

The ocean melts ice shelves from below – a process known as “basal melting”. Increased basal melting has led to the thinning and retreat of the ice sheet in some regions, raising global sea ...

While it isn't a particularly dangerous level, Sunset Shore is unique because of how the entire stage is black. Even Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong are just silhouettes in the intense light of the ...

For instance, in the warm, calm eastern part of the Dotson ice shelf in west Antarctica, an autonomous robot observed basal terraces. In the west of Dotson – which experiences cold, fast ...

A land of spectacular scenery and unique wildlife, many cruises of the southern hemisphere enable you to see Antarctica, but only dedicated itineraries with smaller ships actually take you ashore.