The Antarctic sea, where glaciers drift across the surface. What kind of world lies 1,300 meters below the surface?

A small piece of amber found in West Antarctica is changing how scientists picture the continent’s past. Pulled from the Pine ...

In 1902, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott spotted a large group of large black and white birds at Ross Island, Antarctica ...

Scientists escaping an Antarctic storm discovered a previously uncharted island in the Weddell Sea that appeared on no ...

Researchers have reported three major marine science developments: the discovery of unique hydrothermal vents beneath Antarctic sea ice, new measurements of heat-driven melting under the Ross Ice ...

As per a press release by the institute, at first, the discovery did not seem important. From a distance, the crew saw what ...

Researchers have sounded the alarm after recording Antarctica's third-lowest level of winter sea ice since satellite tracking began nearly 50 years ago, per Phys.org — another sign of how quickly our ...

One fascinating creature spends its winters beneath four feet of Antarctic sea ice, diving to nearly 2,000 feet in water cold ...

What looked like an iceberg turns out to be an undiscovered Antarctic island, surprising scientists and reshaping maps of the ...

The ice that now covers West Antarctica was not there 3.6 million years ago, after a massive collapse of the ice sheet during a warming period. Anna Ruth Halberstadt, CC BY-NC-ND Christine Siddoway, ...