NASA's first scientific balloon flight of the 2025 Antarctica Balloon Campaign lifted off from the agency's Antarctic ...

The General AntiParticle Spectrometer experiment is suspended from a football-field-sized balloon approximately 24 miles ...

The first indication I would have the opportunity to report from Antarctica came in the form of a frantic series of texts from a friend less than two months ago. I had just stepped into a meeting when ...

After becoming the first humans to fly over the Earth's poles in space, a crew of private astronauts — or space tourists, depending on your perspective — report that the world's southernmost continent ...

(CNN) — Parts of icy Antarctica are turning green with plant life at an alarming rate as the region is gripped by extreme heat events, according to new research, sparking concerns about the changing ...

A tiny seed is stuck between loose gravel and coarse sand. There is nothing else alive around it. All it can see is a wall of ice reaching 20 metres up into the sky. It is cold. Survival is hard ...

(Repeats story that moved at 0000 GMT) By David Fogarty SINGAPORE, Oct 3 (Reuters) - In the depths of the Antarctic winter, expeditioners at Australia's research bases might as well be on the moon. Or ...

In 1914, explorer Ernest Shackleton and his 27-man crew set sail on a journey to Antarctica. Their mission? To become the first people to ever cross the entire continent, which is roughly 1.3 times ...

A scientific experiment aimed at detecting dark matter in space launched from Antarctica on December 15, with significant ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - In the depths of the Antarctic winter, expeditioners at Australia's research bases might as well be on the moon. Or on their way to Mars. "When you are in Antarctica you know you ...