An observatory in the heart of Antarctica could have the world’s clearest views of the night sky. The thickness of Earth’s boundary layer varies across the globe. Near the equator, it can be ...

If you want the clearest view of the night sky, you'll have to pack a warm jacket. Dome A, or Dome Argus, an ice dome perched high on the Antarctic Plateau, could be the ideal place to get a clear ...

A dark, moonless sky is awash in light radiating from an aurora over Antarctica in a new image released by NASA ... NASA obtained the image using a "Day/Night Band" (DNB) low-light visible sensor on ...

The image was taken by Steve Erskine a few years ago in Antarctica. Astronomers use lidar to measure the temperature of Earth's atmosphere to calibrate their observations. In this photo ...

It's 5am; perhaps it thinks it's an Antarctic ... during our night camping on the ice as conversation burbled along the tightly packed row of tired travellers, the sunlit night sky tricking ...