At the South Pole, there’s a science experiment that makes the Burj Khalifa—the world’s tallest building—look small. It’s called IceCube, and it’s built 2,500 meters down into the ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

Latest round of UN Global Plastics Treaty negotiations begins in Nairobi Consensus gained amongst UN delegates, industry and NGO organisations on need for comprehensive mitigation framework ...

A new camera at the South Pole Telescope has used the Cosmic Microwave Background, the first light to fill the universe, as a celestial treasure map that could lead to the secrets of dark matter.

Today, the U.S. operates three major research stations on the continent—McMurdo Station, Palmer Station and the South Pole Station—making it one of the most active nations in Antarctic research.

"Considering its solid, transparent and translucent particles, the amber is of high quality," study co-author Henny Gerschel, a consultant at the Saxony State Office for the Environment ...

Until now. In March, a spacecraft captured the first-ever clear images of the sun's south pole, which the European Space Agency released Wednesday, June 11. “We reveal humankind’s first-ever ...