Antarctica could be completely ice-free one day if we allow climate change to continue unabated. The change will take thousands of years, but we only have a century to stop it.

Researchers found ancient river-carved plains beneath East Antarctica that may help slow ice loss and improve sea-level rise ...

Every year, a few thousand people deploy to live on Antarctic research stations — and go through punishing survival training ...

Scientists call for better protection of Antarctica’s vulnerable seafloor ecosystem as ship traffic increases around the continent.

Most meetings reward the loudest and quickest voices. Fast talkers dominate, while more reflective thinkers get sidelined. Ideas are judged not by their substance but by the confidence with which they ...

It's been covered in ice for 34 million years. But scientists are finally uncovering what Antarctica's landscape really looks ...

East Antarctica is the largest ice sheet on Earth. Alone, it holds enough frozen water to raise global sea levels by a ...

The remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East Antarctica have been discovered—and ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Long before European colonizers sighted the continent, legendary explorer Hui Te Rangiora may have seen Antarctica.

An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around ...

Scientists say the phenomenon could “hint at” new particles or interactions between known particles that haven’t been ...