When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

Look up this week for February’s full snow moon and to catch the last glimpse of a visible parade of planets in the night sky before they fade from view.

Ice-rated expedition ships are becoming a familiar sight in a less rugged and more well-trodden part of the world: the Mediterranean. Discover if you should book this type of ship for a less ...

Look up this week for February’s full snow moon and to catch the last glimpse of a visible parade of planets in the night sky before they fade from view.

The lunar eclipse will occur on March 14, 2025, and it will last for over six hours, passing through different phases. The ...

Auroras are one of Earth’s most mesmerizing natural phenomena, but did you know they also exist on other planets? From the ...

Australian scientists have begun a new major ice core drilling project in Antarctica. They hope to search through more than a million years of climate history for clues about our planet's past and ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

Videos of captured North Korean troops posted online by Ukrainian President Zelensky show them admitting that they thought they were being sent on an exercise.

Fremont resident Rich Hirschman will wrap up his chilly trip to Antarctica with a presentation at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21. The presentation, which will be held in Keene Memorial Library's new ...

Antarctica may have been a refuge for early waterfowl ancestors, shielding them from the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.

When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to shape and change the world.” ...