The Tonga earthquake was reported two days after a deadly 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Southeast Asia on Friday (March 28).

Earlier this year, an iceberg the size of Chicago broke off the Antarctic Peninsula. When the gigantic iceberg calved, it revealed a previously hidden 209-square-mile area of seafloor that had ...

Beyond simply being remote, the continent has been isolated for millions of years by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which surrounds it like a moat around a castle. An octopus rests on the ...

"In general, it's become clear the Antarctic ice sheet is thicker than we originally realized," said Peter Fretwell of the British Antarctic Survey, which produced the map. A mix of good news and ...

The base sits on stilts near a cliff edge — a row of buildings that the team will remain in until December, the heart of the Antarctic summer, when a ship is set to depart from South Africa to ...

A member of a small South African research team at a remote Antarctic base has accused a colleague of assault and pleaded for intervention, officials have said. A “response plan to engage the ...

A group of scientists trapped in an Antarctic research base have pleaded to be rescued after claiming a team member threatened to kill another colleague. The South African scientists are in the ...

The Antarctic researcher accused of threatening to kill colleagues trapped in a remote research station has apologised. Scientists at the Sanae IV base in Vesleskarvet, Queen Maude Land sent an ...