An advanced submarine vanished under an Antarctic glacier, revealing new mysteries about remote and challenging regions.

A high maternal fatality rate in pregnancy made the survival of Neanderthals difficult.

While the Stargate movies and TV shows mostly tied all their loose ends, there are still some open mysteries that the revival ...

Winter in Antarctica is long and dark. Temperatures remain well below freezing. In many places, the Sun sets in April and ...

Scientists spent the first weeks of the year on an expedition to Antarctica to study Thwaites Glacier, which is melting at an ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged ...

Antarctica, the planet's largest repository of meteorites, is beginning to hide them under the ice due to global warming.

The Chicago Bulls of the 1990s, the New England Patriots through multiple eras, maybe the Alabama Crimson Tide under Nick Saban? At the core of every great dynasty, a pivotal moment acted as the ...

NASA satellites detected a phytoplankton bloom around Antarctic iceberg A-23A as it melted, showing how icebergs can fertilize the ocean.

As Greenland becomes more accessible to travelers, tight-knit communities along its southern coast are sharing their traditions and ways of life with those who pass through.