Scientists have unearthed a colossal, fan-shaped geological formation hidden beneath East Antarctica's ice. This massive ...

Learn how slow-moving mantle waves inside Earth may have lifted Antarctica’s ancient mountains, creating cold highlands where ...

Antarctica is the coldest, highest, driest, windiest and most remote place on earth. In terms of size, if the islands surrounding the continent are included, it is larger than the United States and ...

New research reveals Antarctica's significant, underestimated role in global warming. A study highlights a stronger link ...

The Ice Memory Sanctuary was built to keep samples from glaciers frozen, preserving thousands of years of Earth's climate ...

The fates of coastal cities worldwide, from New York to Manila, depend on a vast but little-understood Antarctic glacier that is losing ice alarmingly quickly. Now, extensive research efforts in the ...

Beneath the icy silence of Antarctica's famous Dry Valleys lies a world so unusual that it often resembles another planet. Invisible to the naked eye, microscopic organisms survive in some of the ...

One of the big environmental stories of 2012 was the record melting of sea ice in the Arctic, which reached its smallest extent this summer since satellite data began being kept in the late 1970s. But ...

This is the first evidence of dinosaurs ever collected from Antarctica. (British Antarctic Survey) A fossil that has been ...

From Dec. 16 to Jan. 15, Peter Smith, principal investigator for the Phoenix Mars Mission, and six of his colleagues took a trip to Antarctica to explore a landscape resembling the one on the Red ...

Antarctica is a destination of staggering extremes – home to the largest ice sheet on the planet, soaring 14,700-foot ...

"Intensive scientific exploration of Antarctica has been underway for about 70 years and it is still the only continent on ...