Antarctica is often seen as frozen, silent, and unchanging, with sharp winds, cold waters, and endless ice. But even this ...

In a remarkable discovery, scientists have uncovered a vast tapestry of life, ancient landscapes, volcanoes, and geological life under the million-year-old ice of Antarctica, the fifth largest ...

The polar ice cap is a unique chemical archive of Earth's atmosphere. Data collected from the ice could pin down a puzzling problem in the science of global warming: How greenhouse gases have ...

A new discovery has closed a significant gap in the global map of amber finds: for the first time, amber has been unearthed in Antarctica. This discovery, led by scientists from the Alfred Wegener ...

A new study warns that 5,000 meteorites could be sinking beneath Antarctica's icy surface every year as a result of climate change, depriving scientists of vital information about our solar system.

Clues about the formation of major ice sheets on Antarctica have been found in mud cores drilled in Mississippi, providing an important lesson about a major climate cooling event, sometimes known as ...

The mysterious object spotted on Google Maps. (Google via SWNS) By Dean Murray via SWNS Conspiracy theorists believe they have spotted a huge secret doorway in Antarctica. Eagle-eyed sleuths ...

Bottom line: Better information allows for better predictions – this new drone will help scientists fill in the blanks on our maps of Antarctica, improving our estimates of how the continent will ...

Researchers bundled in down jackets toiled around the clock in these snowy tunnels as a massive drill rig churned downward to extract core samples and the secrets they contain from the deepest ...