The most recent occasion when a commercial airliner set down on Antarctica was when Hi Fly landed an Airbus A330-300 at ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China on Wednesday inaugurated its Ross Sea scientific research station, the official Xinhua news agency reported, starting operations in an outpost in a part of the Antarctic due ...

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

A major international competition to design a new scientific research station at one of the Earth’s most extreme environments – Antarctica – is launched this week by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and ...

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

CHANGSHA, China, Dec. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. ("Zoomlion", 1157.HK) has recently joined forces to construct China's fifth Antarctic research ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government shutdown is reaching all the way down to the South Pole. The National Science Foundation announced Tuesday that it is putting its three Antarctic scientific ...

A medical team has rescued an expedition member after medical emergency. Aug. 9, 2012— -- A medical team has arrived in Christchurch, New Zealand, after departing the U.S. McMurdo Station in ...

"If you're doing fieldwork for many months, the feeling of receiving a letter—an actual tangible—letter is such a lift," said ...

The box, featuring the King Charles III cypher, was delivered after Kirsten Shaw, a station support assistant who runs the ...

A shiny new red post box has been given as a gift from King Charles III to staff at a remote Antarctic research station. The ...

Over the past four decades, the Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship has given creatives the opportunity to travel south and develop works on the icy continent.