On a map, Antarctica reads like the final frontier, a place where the rules of the natural world work a little differently.

A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way ...

Deep within caves, high up in the mountains and trekking at the two polar extremes of the earth – Will Smith adventured to ...

Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf is a hidden ocean – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea.

A new study finds that warming temperatures are causing Antarctic penguins to breed earlier, threatening some species with ...

Penguins in Antarctica are changing their breeding habits at record speed to survive rising temperatures from climate change, ...

A new study finds that warming temperatures are causing Antarctic penguins to breed earlier, threatening some species with extinction by century's end.

Increasing greenhouse gas buildup and exceptionally high ocean temperatures drove the significantly hot conditions, the new ...

Times journalists were able to get tantalizingly close to the Thwaites glacier, which scientists are hoping to spend weeks studying up close.

In report language last year, the Senate Appropriations Committee expressed concern “about the ability for NSF to continue to fund a U.S. permanent presence [in Antarctica] given severe budget ...