Freezing winds are continuing to hamper the rescue of 68 people from an Australian icebreaker ship stranded in Antarctica. Aurora Australis was on a supply mission to Mawson Station when it broke ...

The Australian-designed and built icebreaker ferried about 14,000 expeditionary across the Southern Ocean, often amid severe storms. Australian researchers' ambition to keep the Aurora Australis ...

China's lone research icebreaker, the MV Xue Long, may be stuck in thick Antarctic ice after a heroic rescue effort.

The Chinese icebreaker Snow Dragon is about 6.7 nautical miles away, while the Australian Aurora Australis icebreaker is drifting at a distance of 18 miles from the Russian ship. “The Russian ...

Missed out on last night's aurora australis light show? Fortunately the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has confirmed the ...

"You look south to see an aurora — it always originates at the southern magnetic pole, so we always look south, but if it's very big, it will go up very high," she said. "Last night it actually ...