Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.

The Bedmap3 from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the most detailed depiction ever captured of the southernmost ...

Learning from Fabrice Genevois about penguins on Quark Ultramarine. One of the best parts of my ship experience were the ...

Funding for the National Science Foundation, which finances research at US bases on the icy continent, has already been ...

One of the biggest challenges in predicting Antarctica's deeply uncertain future is understanding exactly what's driving its ...

The Trump administration has placed a 10 percent “ reciprocal tariff ” on the Heard and McDonald Islands, which are external ...

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

The Wilkes Land crater is a hole in the bedrock beneath East Antarctica's ice sheet measuring 315 miles (510 kilometers) across. Researchers have been trying to explain its existence since the ...

Mites are common in the Antarctic – there are hundreds of species. Some even live in the nasal cavities of penguins. Penguin ...

Antarctica’s summer sea ice has dropped to one of its lowest extents ever recorded, shrinking to levels 30% below the ...

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s ...

(AP Photo/Joshua Goodman, file) MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge in Florida has blocked the imports of a high-priced fish from ...