A breath-taking natural, social and cultural history of the Arctic, revealing the essential mystery and beauty of a continent that has enchanted man's imagination and ambition since time immemorial.

Australia's Antarctic territory represents the largest sliver of the ice continent. For decades, Australian scientists have ...

A new map of the South Orkney Islands has been released by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) - the first UK published, ...

Roman Vilfand noted another anomaly - in the Antarctica, at the South Pole, where the ice area is 5% below average ...

Blood Falls in Antarctica flows unpredictably with iron-rich, salty water. Microbes inside survive without sunlight.

NASA researchers have identified geological structures on Mars that are unlike anything found on Earth. From spider-like ...

Researchers have generated the first dataset of water flow beneath the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, which will lead to more ...

Everyone knows that Earth is capable of providing beautiful, snowy landscapes, but it isn't unique in that. It snows on Mars, ...

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning director R.J. Cutler’s latest project is taking him to a very remote and very icy environment. He’s ...

The GLIMS initiative has created a unique glacier inventory, storing information about the extent and rates of change of all the world's mountain glaciers and ice caps. The GLIMS Glacier Database was ...

The above image shows a 20-meter-long chunk of frozen carbon dioxide falling off a cliff. Rising temperatures during the ...