During Antarctica’s warm season, the sleek Norwegian passenger ship known as the MS Fridtjof Nansen departs regularly from ...

Russian doctor Leonid Rogozov's self-appendectomy is a remarkable story of medical ingenuity and survival in extreme conditions. Read on for chilling details.

My grandparents are responsible for my love of travel. This visit to Antarctica felt the most meaningful of the trips they ...

Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.

The Heard and McDonald Islands have no permanent human residents, but they are home to millions of penguins, seals, and other ...

Xuelong 2, one of the ships from China's 41st Antarctic expedition team, departs on a nearly seven-month mission to ...

A lucky winner will receive a 12-day cruise through Antarctica onboard the National Geographic Resolution or National ...

A team of scientists set out on the research ship Falkor (too) in February for a 35-day expedition off the South Sandwich Islands, a chain of subantarctic islands. Their main goal was to use a ...

Antarctic expeditions hold as much significance for Belarusian science as space exploration, Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB) Vladimir Gusakov said ...

Penguin chicks, whose coats are made of fluffy down feathers, aren't as protected from the rain as adult penguins. Getting ...

A trip to Antarctica might feel less like crossing the ocean and more like crossing the galaxy, but what happens there ...