An online sleuth has posted images of what looks like a gigantic alien face rising out of the snow at the South Pole. The eerie face was spotted in satellite images of the area ...

The gushing spout of warm water could rapidly melt the Antarctic ice shelf and lead to rising sea levels sooner than we think ...

The Antarctic 'alien' was spotted by a social media user looking at satellite imagery of the area, with some speculating it could be related to as similar mysterious 'face' on Mars ...

The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...

As I embarked the Seabourn Venture in Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world, I knew my mission to play golf ...

Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking mainly due to frequent small calving events, while major iceberg break-offs remain rare ...

The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting ...

Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes that control the fate of the sheet occur on an incredibly small scale ...

Scientists have mapped Antarctica’s ice-free ecosystems, highlighting their biodiversity and growing climate threats.

"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

While warming temperatures are driving a widespread loss of ice shelves, major calving events have not increased in frequency ...

A 2018 study suggested that people working in Antarctica over the winter enter a state of “psychological hibernation,” marked ...