One hundred years after John Wesley Powell’s historic trek down the Grand Canyon, National Geographic went on a commemorative ...

The end of the historic Artemis II mission kicks off a race to establish a permanent human presence on the moon.

Future missions will need longer expiration dates and grow-it-yourself options. Luckily, labs around the world are working on ...

Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice are having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers ...

A German research icebreaker sailing through one of Antarctica’s least-charted stretches of ocean has confirmed something that should not have been a surprise but was: a rocky island, roughly the size ...

Fractures spreading across the floating edge of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier have reached a point that alarms the scientists who study them most closely. A cluster of peer-reviewed studies published ...

Emperor penguins and Antarctic fur seals are both now categorised as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Scientists dive beneath Antarctic ice to study unique marine life and track the impact of climate change on fragile ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature predicts that the birds' population could be cut in half by the 2080s. The ...

A German research vessel seeking shelter from rough weather has discovered a previously unknown island in a remote and poorly ...

Astronaut Christina Koch — currently several hundred thousand miles from Earth on the Artemis II mission to travel around the ...