A major international competition to design a new scientific research station at one of the Earth’s most extreme environments – Antarctica – is launched this week by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and ...

Antarctica is by far the coldest area on the planet. The coldest temperature recorded on Earth was recorded at Vostok, the Russian Antarctica research station in July 1983, when the temperature ...

There has been a research station at the Brunt Ice Shelf in the Antarctic since 1957, when the Royal Society led an expedition there. Halley VI, opened last February, is the first one to have the ...

UT-San Antonio prof Stephen Ackley will discuss his 30-plus years of navigating the Antarctic's unforgiving terrain.

Around 2,500 miles from home and facing increasingly colder and darker conditions, life in an Antarctic research station is tough at the best of times. But at South Africa’s Sanae IV in Vesleskarvet ...

Scientists working on a remote Antarctica research station have pleaded to be rescued after accusing one of their team of assault. The nine-person team had only just arrived for a 13-month overwinter ...

When Cyprien Verseux was told he’d have to undergo some training before he set out to Antarctica in 2019, he thought that sounded reasonable. There are some basics expected of everyone who’s sent to ...

You may think your commute is brutal, but what does it take to get to your job at the most remote place on Earth? It turns out, quite a lot. Wired recently recounted the trials and tribulations of ...

Image: The tanker Lawrence H. Gianella sits alongside the ice pier at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Overcoming challenging ice conditions, a ship has safely delivered cargo needed to supply National ...

The successful landing of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 at the Troll Research Station marked the twentieth Antarctic operation ...