Abstract:Analysis of science and technology news is an important way of scientific and technological information service. The application of text mining technology to topic analysis of science and technology news is helpful to reveal the development trend of science and technology quickly and effectively. This study proposed a topic analysis method of science and technology news based on the LDA model and topic evolution analysis was conducted from the perspective of topic type and topic intensity. From 2009 to 2018, the polar expedition news of China, Australia, the UK and the USA were used as data sources for case analysis. In the Chinese news, the heat of topics like polar geomatics research rose but the heat of the polar glaciology research dropped. In the English news, the popular topics were polar glaciology research and polar oceanography research. The rest topics were relatively stable. The results showed that this method could effectively identify, extract and reveal the evolution trend of topics of science and technology news. It could effectively improve the automation degree of scientific and technological information analysis under the network environment.