As the planet warms and land-based ice makes its way to the oceans, sea levels will rise, threatening islands and coastal regions. Climate scientists model potential changes into the future, but there ...

In the unforgiving polar wilderness, scientists go to great lengths to safeguard the devices that gather precious data.

The tiny ocean robot that vanished beneath Antarctic ice for most of a year has reappeared with a warning that is as technical as it is existential. After roughly nine months adrift in a hostile under ...

If you're one of the millions that followed the little Mars rover that could, Opportunity, for 15 years and whose heart was broken when it sent its final message before shutting down (translated to ...

It’s a $2 million gamble. Scientists with the University of Washington in conjunction with Paul G. Allen Philanthropies are sending robots to Antarctica for as long as a year in what will be the ...

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...