In the unforgiving polar wilderness, scientists go to great lengths to safeguard the devices that gather precious data.

Deep within caves, high up in the mountains and trekking at the two polar extremes of the earth – Will Smith adventured to some epic locations ...

Alex Honnold won't be the first climber to ascend the 1,667-foot skyscraper in Taiwan’s capital city, but he will be the ...

Beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf lies one of the least measured oceans on Earth—a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the ...

The research has revealed hidden hills, alpine-style valleys, eroded troughs, flat lowlands and high-relief terrain that were ...

Generations of Times journalists have journeyed there with scientists. Their coverage traces humankind’s changing ...

On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples ...

“If you imagined the Scottish Highlands or the European Alps were covered by ice and the only way to understand their shape ...

In a new study, researchers explained that less is known about the topography beneath the ice of Antarctica than any other ...

Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet blanketing Antarctica, ...

Antarctica has long looked like a blank white smear on world maps, but new ultra detailed surveys are turning that blankness into a rugged landscape of buried mountains, deep valleys and secret mega ...