Antarctica’s only native insect could provide inspiration for how humans could travel into deep space. The tiny midge called ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

If you think you can brave the elements, consider moving to these regions where bone-chilling temperatures are the norm.

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is recruiting chefs, plumbers, and electricians to live and work at the South Pole. And, if the opportunity to work alongside penguins wasn't appealing enough ...

Darren Edwards knows a lot about hopelessness; one minute, he was rock climbing in North Wales about to finish his route, and ...

Another classic Antarctic adventure is found in the pages written by Admiral Richard Bryd, who spent eight months alone living in a remote cabin on the White Continent in 1937. A firsthand account ...

I n the McMurdo Sound region of Antarctica, there lives a species of sponge known as the giant volcano sponge ( Anoxycalyx ...

One hundred and twenty five thousand people visited Antarctica last year. Can the region cope with an ever growing tourism ...

These tiny creatures may be no bigger than your little finger, but scientists plan to start counting them from space. Knowing ...

Up to 35 seasonal specialists and up to 15 winter visitors can live and work at Vostok. Last week, Russia's AARI set sail on a joint scientific expedition around Antarctica “from the Brazilian ...