SEE ALSO: If a scary asteroid will actually strike Earth, here's how you'll know An international group of researchers excavated the ice at Little Dome C Field Camp in Antarctica, located 10,607 ...

The gigantic wall of ice is moving slowly from Antarctica on a potential collision course with South Georgia, a crucial wildlife breeding ground in the South Atlantic. Satellite imagery suggested ...

This ”shows us that Antarctic marine life ... retrieve a sediment core from under the ice shelf, so it came as a bit of a surprise when we hit the boulder and saw from the video footage that ...

Researchers unveil a new map and classification system that will help protect the unique plants and animals of Earth's most remote and fragile continent. Antarctica, often regarded as the planet's ...

Australian Antarctic Program scientists have released the most comprehensive database of species living in the ice-free areas ...

At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core represents ... compressed into one meter of ice,” Julien Westhoff, a chief scientist in the field and postdoctoral student at ...

A door-like ice formation near Showa Station in Antarctica. Credit: Google Maps Humans have a beautifully innate sense of ...

Southern lights over Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. (Patrick Cullis / NSF) Only 2% of Antarctica is not covered in ice. These are the only inland places where anything lives—and there are some ...

The "Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice" project, funded by the European Commission, achieved a historic milestone for climate science on its fourth Antarctic campaign. The European teams in the field ...

With Antarctica's climate warming at an unprecedented rate, scientists are battling with dangerously thin ice and equipment falling through into the sea beneath. For 20 years, Simon Morley has ...

A wall of ice the size of Rhode Island is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that’s home to millions of penguins and seals.

Suspended inside the ice are ancient air bubbles which scientists hope will help solve an enduring mystery about our planet's climate history. The European scientists worked over four Antarctic ...