The 'Titanic' sinking became the most infamous shipwreck in history—but what really happened on that unusually calm night in ...

Among musical instruments, clothes, and other items left in the Titanic wreckage, shoes were a frequent discovery ...

Crevasses play an integral part in the life cycle of glaciers, and as they grow they hold the potential to further accelerate ...

Stepanov believes that USAID is just the tip of the iceberg of the extensive infrastructure that was first and foremost created to solve scientific and technical problems ...

This month is the 112th anniversary of the RMS Titanic sinking. Billed as “unsinkable,” the 1912 luxury ocean liner was on ...

A, the world’s oldest and largest (about the size of Rhode Island), may hit South Georgia Island, home to vulnerable penguins and seabirds.

Observing Greenland from a helicopter, the main problem is one of comprehending scale. I have thought we were skimming low ...

The jagged fragment has an area of roughly 31 sq miles (80 sq km) - just a fraction of the approximately 1,297 sq miles ...

This National Geographic book is much more than a coffee table tome, although you could easily spend hours just poring over the photographs: black-and-white reproductions from Shackleton’s voyage, and ...

"The obvious equivalent is that up until 1912, it was normal to steam at full power through the iceberg fields in the North Atlantic," he says. After the Titanic sank, this practice stopped."But it's ...

An enormous chunk has broken off the world's largest iceberg, in a possible first sign the behemoth from Antarctica could be ...