The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star returned to the United States on Sunday after completing a 138-day deployment to Antarctica to support Operation Deep Freeze 2024. The mission marked the ...

Each year, the USCG said, the Polar Star travels to McMurdo Station in Antarctica to break miles of ice up to 21 feet thick. The trip to Antarctica is more than 25,000 miles and last year the ship ...

Antarctica is not just a land of ice and penguins; it's a place of extraordinary, mysterious discoveries that continue to ...

Two diagrams of air temperature over Antarctica show the polar vortex in 2023 (left) and 2024 (right). (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory) However, instead of being strong and circular, this ...

Each year, the USCG said, the Polar Star travels to McMurdo Station in Antarctica to break miles of ice up to 21 feet thick. The trip to Antarctica is more than 25,000 miles and last year the ship ...