Preparations are ramping up for the arrival of Australia’s newest icebreaker, the RSV Nuyina. The Antarctic icebreaker is due to arrive in Hobart in 2020.RSV Nuyina will be the main lifeline to ...

ANTARCTIC CIRCLE (WPVI) -- A passenger on a specially-chartered flight captured a stunning time-lapse of the Aurora Australis, also known as the southern lights. Photographer Brad Phipps captured the ...

HOBART, Australia (AP) — The giant orange icebreaker Aurora Australis left Australia for the final time on Saturday after more than 150 trips to Antarctica. Next stop: a shipyard in Dubai, where it ...

Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis was refloated on Friday, two days after running aground in Antarctica while on a mission to resupply the Mawson Station, Australian Broadcasting Corp reported.

The aurora australis seemingly crowns the Earth’s horizon as the International Space Station orbited 272 miles above the southern Indian Ocean in between Asia and Antarctica. iss065e214251 (Aug. 2, ...

CANBERRA, Australia -- An Australian icebreaker carrying 52 passengers who were retrieved from an icebound ship in the Antarctic resumed its journey home Saturday, leaving behind another two ...

The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) reported the incident happened on Wednesday when the ship was on a resupply mission to Mawson Station. Some 30 researchers at Australia’s Davis Research Station ...

China’s lone research icebreaker, the MV Xue Long, may be stuck in thick Antarctic ice after a heroic rescue effort. In an ironic turn of events, China’s Xue Long ice-breaker may now itself be stuck ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Antarctic blizzard has halted an Australian icebreaker's bid to reach a Russian ship trapped for a week with 74 people onboard, rescuers said on Monday. The Aurora Australis had ...