Earth has not always been so hospitable to live. During several ice ages, the planet's surface was almost completely frozen ...

Scientists previously estimated that the total emperor penguin population declined about 10% across all of Antarctica over ...

11. Strange radio pulses were detected by the Antarctic Pulse Transient Antenna (ANITA), they came from the depths of the ...

When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that ...

The team was inspired by bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice, revealing information about our climate hundreds of thousands of years in the past.

Researchers detected mysterious radio waves in Antarctica that seem to defy the rules of particle physics. Now they're ...

Here’s another fun fact about emperor penguins. The males incubate a single egg atop their feet under a brood patch. The male also fasts during incubation, losing up to 45% of his body weight. Park ...

Scientists made a shocking discovery beneath a slowly retreating glacier in Antarctica: a bustling network of microbial life.

TV icon William Shatner of Star Trek fame, and noted astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson will take the stage at McCaw Hall in Seattle this week for a night of conversation.

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

The mystery radio pulses were picked up about 25 miles (40 kilometers) above Earth by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient ...

While some firefly populations are dwindling, you can still spot lightening bugs in the Iowa skies during the right times of ...