An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

New research suggests that life could thrive on exoplanets with unique atmospheres, expanding the definition of habitability ...

About 99% of Earth is uninhabitable; in deep underground places with high pressure and temperature, even the toughest ...

What made Earth hospitable to the origins of life? And how often should we expect planets around other stars to be habitable? The answers to both these questions lie in the formation and distribution ...

As global temperatures rise, the ecology of Antarctica is already changing, but Earth's climate would have to change drastically before the continent could support agriculture and permanent settlers.

Recently, Russian scientists claimed that the universe’s largest oil and gas reserves were discovered in the British Antarctic Territory. This discovery has significantly impacted geopolitics, the ...

The phenomenon occurs because the Earth’s Southern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun as the planet rotates around it, and Antarctica is at its closest point to the sun on the rotation.

A group of horse owners, ranchers and lovers of animals are gathering supplies and raising money for the fires in Los Angeles, to assist an often-overlooked group of survivors: horses. (0 Ratings) ...

Ben Galton-Fenzi is employed by the Australian Antarctic DIvision. Bishakhdatta Gayen is employed by the University of Melbourne. He receives funding from the Australian Research Council.

Cat Burford, pictured at the South Pole, said her 700-mile challenge across Antarctica had been "really brutal" A dentist from Truro is celebrating reaching the South Pole unaided to realise a ...

Called the Habitable Worlds Observatory, the telescope is so massive it may even need to ride a next-gen megarocket like SpaceX's Starship to reach space; it will also require new technological ...