Rain is rare in Antarctica. Scientists doing fieldwork there dress for cold and glare, not wet weather – duvet jackets, snow trousers, goggles and sunscreen. Planes land on gravel runways which are ...

Plus NOAA's GOES-19 satellite spies the lunar disk crossing the face of our parent star.

Antarctica, once a frozen polar desert, is now experiencing rainfall due to rising global temperatures. This shift, particularly on the warming Antarctic Peninsula, accelerates glacier melt, threatens ...

Antarctica is experiencing weird weather, and the changes have some scientists worried about the future. There’s an area on the west side of the icy continent called the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and ...

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier may be considered small, but the amount of ice it has lost in record time is a really big deal. The glacier is about 115 square miles (or roughly the size of Philadelphia ...