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 ...

Since auroras concentrate around Earth’s magnetic poles, the best viewing locations for the Southern Lights are those at high ...

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 ...

Auroras are perhaps the most spectacular natural light shows on Earth — and they look even more majestic from above. Also called the northern lights (aurora borealis) and southern lights (aurora ...

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 ...

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, ...

"IT WILL change your life," the Antarctic old-timer proclaimed two days before I flew to Hobart to board the icebreaker Aurora Australis. The man's expression was hard to read and I could not tell if ...

Adjunct Researcher, College of Arts, Law and Education, University of Tasmania Social media has once again lit up with the spectacle of aurora australis, also known as the Southern Lights, as it ...

Dozens of passengers were finally rescued Thursday from a Russia ship that’s been stranded in the ice off Antarctica, ending an ordeal that started on Christmas Eve. After three different rescue ...