"What if the iron stones were warming up to the point where they would actually melt the glacial ice beneath them and sink ...

Antarctica may be home to hundreds of thousands of meteorites — but finding them is extraordinarily difficult. . | Credit: Stocktrek Images/Getty Images There are hundreds of thousands of ...

When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to shape and change the world.” ...

University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

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Astrobiologists in Germany are developing a new testing device that could help tease dormant alien microbes into revealing ...

Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have discovered microplastics in the snow near some of Antarctica's deep field camps. This is the first time these tiny pieces of plastic ...

In recent weeks, there have been several air accidents around the world. On Friday, there was a new accident involving a small plane in Brazil. Specifically, the accident occurred ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent might have been just that for the early ancestors of today’s living ...