Rugby player turned explorer Richard Parks guided the Fresh Prince of Bel Air around the world's coldest continent.

The glacier's collapse could severely impact coastal cities worldwide due to rising sea levels. Scientists have recently ...

If the ice blanketing Antarctica were to vanish, the world’s shorelines would be redrawn so radically that some countries would simply cease to exist. Entire coastal megacities would be abandoned, new ...

Africa is on a fierce campaign that, if successful, will see the Mercator map replaced with the Equal Earth map on web-based ...

Scientists have detected hundreds of earthquakes originating from Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier', sparking fears of collapse ...

Wegener at the University of Graz in Germany says that millions of years ago the two Americas, as well as Europe, Asia, ...

A major volcanic cataclysm may have been ultimately responsible for the spread of the Black Death across Europe in the 1340s.

AVALON, New Zealand — Under New Zealand, there lies a vast continent on the sea floor. Once part of the same land mass as Antarctica and Australia, the lost continent of Zealandia broke off 85 million ...

A strategic advantage in Antarctica could give China a critical advantage in space—as well as the opportunity to exploit the continent’s vast untapped natural resources.

Antarctica is warming roughly twice as fast as the rest of the planet, putting its vast ice sheets, surrounding oceans, and ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

A satellite called Sentinel-1D lifted off on November 4, 2025, riding an Ariane 6 rocket from French Guiana. Within two days ...