A balloon-borne experiment now flying high above Antarctica is headed for an unprecedented second loop around the South Pole in search of the origin of cosmic rays, atomic particles that travel ...

It’s day 42 in Antarctica. The group has survived temperatures ranging from 35 degrees Fahrenheit to just below zero. They have learned to build snow walls, work as a team to navigate through ...

Nearly two decades ago, an experiment floating high above Antarctica caught a weird signal. Designed to capture the radio spurts of cosmic rays falling from above, in 2006 the Antarctic Impulsive ...

ST. LOUIS -- A group of physicists from Washington University in St. Louis looking to catch a few rays are taking a trip south. Way south. All the way to Antarctica. During a trip that may last up to ...

Not every day does a particle from the outskirts of the universe crash through the Earth, lighting up thousands of detectors far beneath the ocean. But in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of ...

(CNN) — Scientists are trying to solve a decade-long mystery by determining the identity of anomalous signals detected from below ice in Antarctica. The strange radio waves emerged during a search for ...

A huge cubic “telescope” buried 8,000ft beneath the ice of the Antarctic is helping scientists to trace the origin of cosmic rays which blast our planet from space. The rays can damage the DNA of ...

At the South Pole, there’s a science experiment that makes the Burj Khalifa—the world’s tallest building—look small. It’s called IceCube, and it’s built 2,500 meters down into the Antarctic ice. Its ...

Scientists are baffled by weird signals detected beneath Antarctica. A cosmic particle detector designed to pick up rays from space instead recorded a series of bizarre signals from under the ice.

NASA is about to launch a flock of giant balloons from Antarctica to the edge of space – for science, of course. On December 1, as part of NASA’s annual Antarctic Long Duration Balloon Campaign, teams ...

Nearly two decades ago, an experiment floating high above Antarctica caught a weird signal. The balloon-borne suite of instruments recorded a similar event in 2014, and scientists have been scratching ...