An Australian medical team has arrived in Christchurch, New Zealand, after departing the U.S. McMurdo Station in Antarctica where it rescued an expedition member who suffered a medical emergency.

You might have heard of McMurdo Station which is the largest human habitation on Antarctica. With a population of up to 1,100 people during the summer it is basically the continent's New York City.

In 2017, staff at South Africa’s sub-Antarctic Marion Island station reported that a team member smashed up a colleague’s room with an ax over a romantic relationship.

The team arrived at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, about 2,400 miles south of New Zealand near the South Pole, and then took a plane to the base camp in Allan Hills, which is about 130 miles from ...

As Wired reports, even scientists at the United States Antarctic Program (USAP), which operates three permanent stations on the southernmost continent, are feeling the hurt.

With US investment in polar science under threat, scientists hope that China’s interest in the region will benefit research.

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 ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation said the medical evacuation was due to end a little after 2 a.m. EDT (0700 GMT) on Thursday when a A319 Airbus from Australia's Antarctic research program was ...

A long-told anecdote in modern Antarctic circles is of a man who stabbed, perhaps fatally, a colleague over a game of chess at Russia’s Vostok station in 1959.