The organism may help produce a cancer-killing toxin ...

After more than 80 years underwater, the ship that witnessed the famed Antarctic explorer's final moments has revealed itself ...

An expedition almost 400 metres below the surface of the Labrador Sea is revealing the first images of Quest, the sunken ...

A vertebra discovered by British scientists in 1985 has been identified as the first dinosaur fossil found in Antarctica, ...

A bacterial toxin from one of Antarctica's most overlooked creatures kills melanoma cells without harming healthy ones, and a team of scientists just risked everything in freezing polar waters to ...

Robert Falcon Scott led an expedition aboard the ship ‘Terra Nova’ and Ernest Shackleton led one from the ship ‘Quest’—but ...

After more than a century at the bottom of the Antarctic’s Weddell sea, an expedition set off to photograph the final resting ...

"Our results show that climate change made the retreat of the Pine Island Glacier substantially worse,” the lead author said.

Temperatures have climbed up to 45 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, stopping ice from forming in the dead of Antarctic winter.

The Southern Ocean has long stood out as an oddity in the global climate system. While most of the planet's surface oceans ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 meters (171 ...