A football-field-sized balloon drifting above the Ross Ice Shelf has just turned Antarctica into one of the most ambitious listening posts in modern astrophysics. Over 23 days aloft, a University of ...

After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on ...

University of Chicago researchers have begun examining data collected by a device transported by a NASA balloon that flew ...

A team of scientists at the University of Chicago has launched a groundbreaking experiment in search of ultrahigh-energy neutrinos, particles from deep space that could unlock the mysteries of some of ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 27, 1984, a Mars meteorite was found in Antarctica. The meteorite, known as Allan Hills 84001, was found in Allan Hills, ...

Iceberg A-23A first broke away from Antarctica in 1986. That was nearly forty years ago. Now the iceberg is far from where it began, floating in the S.