The research vessel Sikuliaq will journey to the South Pole this year to conduct research in Antarctica for the first time in ...

After a 12-day crossing, and a hard slog through sea ice, the field work on this Antarctic expedition is ready to start.

For more than three decades, a single orange-hulled icebreaker carried much of the United States’ scientific ambition into Antarctic waters. The RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer, a 308‑foot research vessel, ...

The Shirase began transferring fuel, observation equipment and other supplies to the research base on Saturday night.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency funds scientific and technological development across the United States and its territories. It also funds research and maintains ...

A team of CSIRO scientists is gearing up for a 56-day journey to uncover the secrets of a previously unexplored part of Antarctica, marking a major milestone for the organisation’s research vessel.

Polarstern is being built for the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).The new ...

When it comes to the future of the world’s coasts, few places on Earth matter more than the ice-choked, storm-tossed Bellingshausen Sea. There, the warm ocean currents whirling around Antarctica first ...

During Antarctica’s warm season, the sleek Norwegian passenger ship known as the MS Fridtjof Nansen departs regularly from Argentina for its journey south across the turbulent Drake Passage, down to ...

The Cabinet of Ministers has decided to extend the State Targeted Scientific and Technical Program of Research in the ...

Japan's Antarctic research vessel Shirase carved its way through sea ice and reached a fast ice berthing point about 1,700 meters off Japan's Showa Station at 12:44 p.m. on Saturday. The waters around ...