Many of us know Antarctica as a land of ice and not much else. But hidden beneath the miles of glaciers and ice sheets lies a ...

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

Lake Vida, a salty lake buried under a 60-foot-thick sheet of ice in Antarctica, has renewed scientists' hopes of finding alien life in space, even in the most inhospitable places. The lake ...

Volcanoes erupting isn’t what most people think of, but this scene could happen as the frozen continent melts, a study has ...

Antarctica, the coldest and most deserted continent ... This hidden energy source pegged on geothermal heating derived from within the Earth, is fuming under the ice. This finding, therefore, poses ...

The vehicle’s mission yielded key findings on glacial melt and deep currents before it disappeared under mysterious ...

At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core represents the oldest known ice on the planet. The 1.7 mile-long ice core was recovered from over 9,000 feet (2,800 meters) deep ...

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

Antarctica’s untouched reserves hold a staggering ... genetic code for male-only reproduction 'The Arctic is dying': Last ice area will disappear faster than you think '27% of the Universe ...

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

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the shelf. Is climate change to blame? When you purchase through links on ...

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.