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.

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 ...

One of the best ways to learn how Antarctic sea spiders thrive under extreme conditions is to squeeze their guts out through ...

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

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.