Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' ...

Captain James Cook's third and final attempt to sail south in search of the elusive Terra Australis was blocked by ...

"But Antarctica is not an apolitical human paradise with untouched nature—a sort of continent for scientific inquiry alone.

Never seen, perhaps, but that doesn't mean forever to remain unknown. For years, the British Antarctic Survey has been flying ...

A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice ...

The British Antarctic Survey has revealed a new map showing what Antarctica looks like under the several thousands of meters ...

Exclusive: For Lodrick Hlungwane, who spent three years at the isolated base, a recent crisis there was disturbing—but not surprising.

The researchers and base personnel remain in Antarctica for approximately 15 months working through the cold and dark winter ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...

Far from staying away from the game, a five-month chess championship took place between Soviet explorers in Antarctica in ...

In the depths of the ocean, near the South Sandwich Islands, a remarkable marine creature has been filmed. This is not an ...

A group of South African scientists has pleaded for help, saying they are trapped in an isolated base on a cliff edge in Antarctica with a team member who has become violent.