Scientists have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice core at Little Dome C in East Antarctica. Extracted during the fourth drilling campaign of the EU-funded, Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project, ...

Sediment cores drilled from the seabed off West Antarctica have revealed that dense temperate rainforests thrived near the South Pole around 90 million years ago. The discovery, based on fossil roots, ...

A robot sent to hunt for a century-old shipwreck in Antarctica's frozen depths filmed something no scientist expected to find there, and the discovery is forcing researchers to rethink what life in ...

Our solar system is currently passing through the Local Interstellar Cloud, a region of highly diluted gas and dust between the stars. On its path, Earth continuously accumulates iron-60, a rare ...

Climate patterns in the tropics help determine how much snow falls from year to year in Antarctica, one of the coldest, windiest and driest places on Earth. New research from the University of Utah ...