Crustaceans, snails, worms and fish are among the dozens of creatures that deep-sea explorers discovered under a massive Antarctic ice shelf.

The researchers and base personnel remain in Antarctica for approximately 15 months working through the cold and dark winter ...

A University of Vienna study suggests that the solar system's movement through the galaxy affected Earth's climate millions ...

Antarctica’s total ice volume is now estimated at 27.17 million cubic kilometers (6.52 million cubic miles). The ice sheet ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...

A new map shows the Antarctic continent in greater detail than ever before. It should help us to better understand the ...

Stanford researchers have integrated machine learning with high-resolution satellite and aerial observations to analyze the ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

As the planet warms, Antarctica's ice sheet is melting and contributing to sea-level rise around the globe. Antarctica holds ...

Sediment samples from the Ross Sea coastline are revealing insights into how animals like elephant seals and Adélie penguins ...

A, after years of drifting, now appears stuck near South Georgia Island. Once lodged in the Southern Weddell Sea for decades, ...

Combined Antarctic and Arctic sea ice cover -- ocean water that freezes and floats on ... Copernicus uses satellite observations of polar regions going back to the 1970s and shipping records before ...