A football-field-sized balloon drifting above the Ross Ice Shelf has just turned Antarctica into one of the most ambitious ...

Scientists believe the map could shed light on how Antarctica's vast ice sheet will respond to climate change.

Antarctica's Blood Falls were first observed by Australian geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor during the Terra Nova expedition in 1911.

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life ...

Beneath Antarctica's vast expanse of ice sit hundreds of canyons, some up to tens of thousands of feet deep. These complex formations under a seemingly barren landscape play a significant role in ...

Do you think the white frozen sheets over Antarctica may hold a secret? This White, frozen, and solid Antarctica, although it ...

Beneath Antarctica’s frozen silence, scientists have mapped hundreds of hidden volcanoes, revealing unseen forces that quietly shape ice movement, sea levels, and the continent’s uncertain future.

Researchers are preparing for ‘an extremely challenging mission'.

ROME (AP) — Scientists in Antarctica on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth’s atmosphere in a frozen vault for future ...

IFPA subglacial topography of Antarctica. Credit: Science (2026). DOI: 10.1126/science.ady2532. Scientists have discovered there is more to Antarctica than meets the eye. A new map of the landscape ...