As northern Alaska takes on Polar night, with 64 days of darkness, Antarctica will enter Polar day, with 24 hours of sunlight ...

As Midwinter Day comes to Antarctica –- the darkest day of the year –- those spending the winter on the frozen continent will follow a tradition dating back more than a century to the earliest days of ...

TROLL RESEARCH STATION, Antarctica -- Trapped with his ship in Antarctic ice a century ago, explorer Frederick Cook dreaded the approaching "blackness of the long polar night," the grim winter that ...