Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers ...

Antarctica has always been a place of mystery, with its icy surface concealing an entire world beneath. Scientists have long ...

Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet ...

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new ...

"Then, hour by hour and day ... floating glaciers attached to the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet. It's also not clear what will happen to this ecosystem now that's been fundamentally altered ...

A lucky group of scientists were able to explore a never-before-seen part of the Antarctic after an ice shelf broke ... Esquete said that researchers are now studying how the ecosystem has ...

Researchers found increased meltwater and rain explain 60% of a decades-long mismatch between predicted and observed temperatures in the ocean around Antarctica.

Millions of years from now, it may be jungle again. But for all of human history, Antarctica has been ice-covered and desolate. Explorers struggled to survive, and researchers struggled to ...

SANAE IV, which is about 100 miles from the edge of the ice shelf, was founded in ... that leaves the station and dies in the Antarctic wastes — and then their ghosts come back to haunt the ...

In 2023, it left Antarctic waters and started traveling north. Then this spring it started ... According to the US National Ice Center, it now measures roughly 1,330 square miles, which is ...

A giant phantom jelly is documented in the Bellingshausen Sea off Antarctica, at an area where the shelf break and slope are cut by several underwater gullies. This jellyfish can grow to a massive ...