Author: Maria Temming / Source: Science News Black holes are extremely camera shy. Supermassive black holes, ensconced in the centers of galaxies, make themselves visible by spewing bright jets of charged particles or by flinging away or ripping up nearby stars. Up close, these behemoths are

I’ve been fortunate enough to see the Northern Lights in person on two occasions, both in Iceland, on back-to-back nights. The first night was actually wildly underwhelming but the second night was a light display out of my wildest dreams. We went on a Northern Lights tour outside of Reykjavik on

Source: Neatorama Concluding the most epic polar competition since Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott raced to the South Pole in 1911, British adventurer Louis Rudd skied to the edge of the Antarctic land mass on December 29, the 56th day of his expedition, to complete his solo, unsupported,

There is so much that we don’t know yet about our planet, Earth. This is especially true when it comes to places which are remote, hard to reach and where the climate is harsh and uninviting. That makes Antarctica one of the most mysterious places on Earth – it’s an icy, remote, desolate desert

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama Admiral Richard E. Byrd loved milk and missed it during his expeditions to Antartica, so he dreamed up a scheme to bring dairy cows to the South Pole. Milk wasn’t the only reason, though. Byrd surmised that a boring scientific expedition would get few