In 2011, Chilean scientists exploring Antarctica found a strange, deflated, football-shaped object on Seymour Island and took ...

Beneath kilometers of ice in East Antarctica, a team of geoscientists led by geophysicist Stewart Jamieson of Durham University has discovered a landscape ...

A new discovery of methane leaks in Antarctica could be a game-changer and potential near-term threat that’s difficult to characterize without sounding overly negative. Of course, situations like this ...

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier collapsed at record speed, revealing how quickly ice loss could drive sea level rise. A glacier on the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula has undergone the fastest ...

International researchers announced the discovery of a potentially over 30-million-year-old lost world located more than a mile beneath the Antarctic ice that may have teemed with rivers, forests, and ...

A recent discovery by a team of Australian scientists reveals that an ocean current, which acts as a safeguard by protecting Antarctica from warm water that would otherwise melt the region's ice, is ...

What happened on January 28, 1820, was a monumental event in the history of exploration. A Russian expedition led by Faddey ...

Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life except around the coasts. But this wasn't always the case. In 1833, naturalist James Eights found fossilized wood buried in the continent's ...

A glacier in Antarctica about the size of Philadelphia lost half of its entire mass in just two months, according to a shocking new study. The alarming discovery of the Hektoria Glacier's stunning ...

With his new book, Bruce Luyendyk has created a whole new genre — the geothriller. Mighty Bad Land follows the longtime UC Santa Barbara researcher on his 1989 expedition to Antarctica, a gritty ...

In six trips to Antarctica, biologist Terrie Williams endured brutal conditions on the coldest, driest, windiest continent on Earth in order to learn the secrets of the mysterious Weddell seals, the ...