New research suggests the Band of Holes functioned as a barter marketplace before becoming an accounting system for the Inca ...

The balloon-borne telescope XL-Calibur was launched on a six-day flight from the Swedish Space Corporation's Esrange Space ...

Ms Shackleton and her colleagues discovered the ice between 2019 and 2023 in East Antarctica's remote region. The Allan Hills ...

We know the Earth is old, but getting direct evidence of the deep past is hard, that's why the latest discovery out of ...

The extracted ice block is six million years old, towards the end of the Miocene epoch, and can help to understand the planet ...

Scientists recorded a total-column ozone concentration of 102 Dobson units, the 8th-lowest level since 1986.

Temperature records from measurements of oxygen isotopes in the ice reveal that this area experienced a gradual, long-term ...

A new study of Antarctic ice cores published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has extended our record ...

As she waited deportation back to Ireland under military escort, Grace was still grieving for her friend, the Greenpeace photographer, Fernando Pereira, a father-of-two who drowned while trying to ...

A team of researchers, including those from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), has discovered the oldest directly ...

Some places on Earth stay frozen almost all year, where icy winds blow and sunlight is rare. From Antarctica to Russia, here are seven of the coldest countries that every adventure traveller should ...

Scientists discovered 6-million-year-old ice in Antarctica, offering the oldest direct record of Earth’s ancient atmosphere ...