A five-month-long slumber party. A college dorm. An introvert’s hell. Those are just some of the words residents of Antarctica use to describe life in the world’s coldest, most mysterious continent.

We take a look at a handful misconceptions about Antarctica, from its alleged populations of bears to its current ownership.

How do you grow watermelons in a place with nothing we’d recognize as a summer? Researchers at Russia’s year-round Vostok Station worked it out, producing eight watermelons weighing about 2 pounds ...

A new map of Antarctica’s seafloor reveals a vast and previously overlooked network of 332 submarine canyons, some plunging more than 4,000 meters. The findings provide an unprecedented view into how ...