(3 November 2015) Members of the GRIPS balloon team began arriving at McMurdo Station in Antarctica in late October 2015.

(20 February 2014) Using a telescope installed at the driest place on earth – Ridge A in Antarctica – a UNSW-led team of researchers has identified a giant gas cloud which appears to be in an early stage of formation.

(12 February 2014) Scientists have demonstrated how new satellite technology can be used to count whales, and ultimately estimate their population size.

(21 January 2014)  Near the centre of Antarctica, measurements from CryoSat show an unusual pattern in the ice sheet’s elevation. Scientists have now found the reason for this pattern – and the discovery is leading to even more accurate measurements from ESA’s ice mission.

(9 January 2014) For ten days, 74 scientists and tourists were trapped in the Antarctic on board the Russian Akademik Shokalskiy research vessel.

(2 January 2014) The second year of an unprecedented balloon campaign in Antarctica has just begun. The NASA-funded mission – called the Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses, or BARREL – is led by Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.