Completing winter hikes is a walker's upgrade, making a foray into the realm of hardcore hiker, even mountaineer. It's a bigger challenge than hiking in summer on all fronts, physical, mental, and ...

Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, holds the title of the world’s coldest capital city, with winter temperatures ...

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

A research team led by Prof. An Zhisheng and Prof. Zhou Weijian from the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese ...

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

Researchers have returned to an underground thermal lake they first came across in 2021 in southern Albania and confirmed it ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

Anders Brenna, 38, of Oslo will set out early this spring to follow the 1905 route of two of Roald Amundsen's men up the east ...

A semi-submersible vessel loaded with over 5,000 pounds of cocaine was intercepted off the Pacific coast of Colombia, the country's navy said Wednesday. Officials said it marked the nation's first ...

New weather maps show the exact date millions of Brits are to suffer in another Arctic onslaught. The Met Office has already warned that temperatures could dive to a bone-chilling -7C in some ...

How is climate change affecting polar regions? Climate change is amplified in the polar regions. The northern and southern reaches of the planet are warming faster than any area on Earth, with the ...