Antarctica

AnimalsFewer than 130 sightings have ever been made of the mysterious deep-sea creature. Now a 30-foot-long specimen has been spotted off Antarctica. ByMelissa Hobson Published February 10, 2023 • 5 min read In the ethereal blue glow of the water, a huge shape swept toward them. Around 30 feet long,…

Antarctic cruises are rising in popularity, though 4 Americans recently died on them The U.S. Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the deaths of four Americans on cruises to Antarctica, highlighting the perils of these increasingly popular cruises. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: The Coast Guard and the National…

Ground stations help track the tens of thousands of satellites and other objects in Earth’s orbit and predict where they will be at any given time — a capability known as space situational awareness (SSA). “China adding new satellite ground stations in Antarctica will help it receive data from its…

HELSINKI — China is to construct new ground station facilities to its Zhongshan research base in Antarctica to support satellite data acquisition.  Official space industry newspaper China Space News reported Feb. 2 that a subsidiary of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), a giant state-owned defense and space…

BEIJING: China, only the third country to put a man in space after the Soviet Union and the United States, is to build ground stations in Antarctica to back its network of ocean monitoring satellites, state media said on Thursday (Feb 2). China's global network of ground stations to support…

this looks cool — Venturi has added more cooling to cope with unexpectedly hot temperatures. Jonathan M. Gitlin - Feb 1, 2023 3:48 pm UTC Enlarge / The Venturi Antarctica has been operating down south since late 2021. Venturi The Antarctic's only electric exploration vehicle has received an upgrade for…

Sweeping across dark, blustery skies on Saturday morning, a rainbow framed Cape Town’s foggy seaboard end to end – but when a tug fleet motored out to meet a Russian ship on the horizon, the light display vanished in the mist. By 9am, the Akademik Alexander Karpinsky and her controversial…

A Russian polar research vessel docked in South Africa’s Cape Town harbour at the weekend as climate protesters raised fears it could be used to help Moscow explore for minerals in protected Antarctica. The Akademik Aleksandr Karpinskiy icebreaker is on its way to the Antarctic as part of a scientific…

This is the second major break-off from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf in two years. Read More

Home News This aerial photograph taken in late November shows the new iceberg about to separate — or "calve" — from the floating Brunt Ice Shelf. (Image credit: Ian Potten/BAS) A widening chasm in Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf, which forced Britain's Halley Research Station to be moved to safety several…