Beneath Mount Erebus, researchers have found a hidden underground ecosystem that could rewrite history. This hidden world may ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

Lake Vostok is the largest of 375 or so subglacial lakes in Antarctica. It is also the fourth deepest lake on Earth, with depths reaching 800 meters from the lake’s surface, itself covered by 2 miles ...

Sandwiched between the freezing cold of Earth’s coldest continent and the warmth of its southernmost active volcano, the caves beneath Antarctica’s Mount Erebus are an anomaly in more ways than one.

East Antarctica is supposed to be different ... To the contrary, they found that it was a large, 10 foot deep, icy lake bed. In its center, meanwhile, were multiple rivers and three moulins ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Eastern Antarctica is considered to be the coldest place on Earth. So cold, that scientists expected its ice shelves were frozen solid and more stable against ...

who studies microbes in Antarctic lakes. “The only way you can have a presence in Antarctica is through science,” Dr. Sumner said. Even so, much of that science is motivated by the need to ...

A Russian team drilling toward Lake Vostok, a pristine freshwater lake buried 3,750 meters under the Antarctic ice had to conclude its task and will have to wait for the next season to finish off ...

Microscopic life in this lake could give insights into the earliest life on Earth. (Photo by Abbey Dias/National Science Foundation) The McMurdo Dry Valleys don’t look like they belong in Antarctica.

Research into Antarctica's network of dynamic subglacial lakes helped shape a Code of Conduct, enabling scientific discovery without compromising these unique habitats. Research led by Professor ...

Turkish scientists conducted research in Antarctica to explore solutions for the future of the world. The 9th National Antarctic Science Expedition was organized under the auspices of the Turkish ...