In Antarctica, two giant rifts, known as Chasm 1 and Halloween Crack, split across the Brunt Ice Shelf. The implications of ...

A robotic expedition beneath Antarctica's Filchner Ice Shelf has revealed what researchers describe as an 'underwater city' ...

Warm seawater is pushing farther beneath Antarctica’s ice shelves and even under grounded ice than scientists previously ...

Drilling through nearly two miles of Antarctic ice is not something you do casually. It takes years of preparation, ...

Hidden beneath hundreds of metres of Antarctic ice lies one of the planet's most extraordinary wildlife spectacles. After ...

Thirty million years separate the freezing of Antarctica from the glaciation of the Arctic, and for decades that gap made ...

Antarctica is a destination of staggering extremes – home to the largest ice sheet on the planet, soaring 14,700-foot mountains, active "Ring of Fire" volcanoes and the coldest surface temperature ...

Dinosaur fossils are rare to find in Antarctica because of the unforgiving ice caps. But millions of years ago, the region was populated by lush forests.

Researchers have identified the first-ever dinosaur fossil discovered on Antarctica, revealing it belonged to a titanosaur.

Glaciers contain priceless information about the Earth’s climate history. Ice Memory Foundation is leading a project to preserve pieces of these glaciers before rising temperatures erase them.

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 meters (171 ...

Some 34 million years ago, when Earth was significantly warmer than it is today, Antarctica froze over. It would take another ...