One of the biggest challenges in predicting Antarctica's deeply uncertain future is understanding exactly what's driving its ...

Deep beneath the ice of East Antarctica’s Wilkes Land, scientists have identified a vast gravitational anomaly that could ...

In the frigid waters originally hidden below, scientists discovered what appear to be new species of crustaceans, fish and other life forms.

Funding for the National Science Foundation, which finances research at US bases on the icy continent, has already been ...

Much of Earth's heat uptake is passed to the ocean, making ocean heat content key for understanding long-term climate ...

Led by Dr Daniel Price of Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC’s) School of Earth and Environment, the ...

The Antarctic ice sheet behaves like a non-Newtonian fluid and may be more nonlinear than previously thought. This impacts its future stability and requires revisions to predictions of sea level rise.

In Antarctica's freezing depths, tiny creatures have mastered survival tactics that could unlock secrets to extreme cold ...

Where does life lurk under the ice of Antarctica? The answers keep surprising us. In January, for example, researchers found corals, sponges and even giant sea spiders some 750 feet under the ...

The formation of sea ice also makes the surrounding water saltier, as salt is pushed out when water freezes. If less sea ice ...

Guests were crossing the Drake Passage at the time, a notoriously treacherous waterway between Antarctica and South America.