NASA plans two Antarctic balloon launches to study extreme cosmic particles, using stable polar winds and continuous sunlight ...

The largest single-day size for the 2025 hole occurred on September 9, when it expanded to 8.83 million square miles (22.86 ...

High above Antarctica, two giant NASA balloons are being readied to drift along the edge of space, turning the polar sky into a laboratory for some of the hardest questions in physics. Instead of ...

The head of NASA’s astrophysics division offered an upbeat assessment of upcoming missions, a stark contrast to the agency’s ...

NASA is set to launch two scientific balloons from Antarctica in December, aiming to study ultra-high-energy neutrinos and dark matter.

Scientists are measuring a huge unknown in climate science: how much heat Antarctica emits into space. To do this, Earth ...

NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program is back in Antarctica, launching two exciting balloon missions that aim to uncover some of ...

This year’s ozone hole over Antarctica ranked among the smallest since the early 1990s, reflecting steady progress from ...

Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water ...

A robotic float captured the first under-ice transect in East Antarctica, revealing new risks for the Denman Glacier.

The scientists at EU’s Copernicus monitoring service hails a ‘reassuring sign’ of progress observed this year in the hole’s ...

Swirling underwater eddies are aggressively melting two Antarctic glaciers, a recent study found, including the one that could raise sea levels by multiple feet.