The phenomenon occurs because the Earth’s Southern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun as the planet rotates around it, and Antarctica is at its closest point to the sun on the rotation.

When Eric Sun and Jennifer Liu, avid travelers who met in college, decided to marry, there was one continent left on their ...

The central part of the shadow will pass 330 km below the South Pole; 90% of the Sun will be covered at the part of Antarctica south of Patagonia, South America. However IAU warns that because the ...

An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

THE long-lost forefather of the beloved duck and goose has been discovered, after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The ...

Indian scientist explores Antarctic glaciers on research vessel, studying biodiversity and climate change impact in Ross Sea.

Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately drawn Sun motifs. Scholars now speculate that these stones might have been ...

In Antarctica, solar hydrogen emerges as a beacon of renewable energy, offering hope for reducing fossil fuel dependency and preserving the fragile ecosystem in extreme conditions. Fundación ...

The trillion-ton slab of ice — called a megaberg — could slam into South Georgia Island, making it hard for penguin parents to feed their babies and some young could even starve.