A new doc called 'The Thing Expanded' is expected to be the definitive companion to John Carpenter's cult favorite 'The Thing ...

Aliens exist – they just haven't visited Earth, a NASA veteran has claimed. Dr Gentry Lee has worked at the US space agency since 1968, when he first got involved with the Viking mission to Mars. He ...

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Scientists calling it the “Doomsday Glacier” are now watching Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica more closely than ever — not because it’s distant and cold, but because its future behavior may ...

A study in Nature Geoscience reveals that changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) closely tracked marine algae growth in the Southern Ocean over previous glacial cycles, but not in the way ...

The “Melania” documentary purchased by Amazon for $40 million is on track to recover as little as $1 million on its opening weekend, according to at least one projection. But optimists say the movie ...

A short, grainy clip of a penguin waddling away from its colony and toward a distant mountain range is going viral on the internet. Netizens have dubbed it the Nihilist Penguin, and the footage has ...

new video loaded: A Century of The New York Times in Antarctica transcript Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong takes a trip into the New York Times archives to see how our understanding of Antarctica ...

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A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, aptly nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier, is a ticking time bomb. The rapidly melting body of ice could cause up to 10 feet (3 meters) of global sea-level rise if it were to ...

Our reporter sends a dispatch from the icebreaker Araon, currently on its way to Antarctica, about the scientists, their work and how he’s battling seasickness. By Raymond Zhong Reporting from the ...