A high-tech submersible has mysteriously vanished beneath Antarctica’s most dangerous glacier, leaving scientists baffled and concerned. The robotic vehicle, designed to explore the unstable Thwaites ...

Discovered by the West not much more than 200 years ago, Antarctica’s history is unique when compared to the six other ...

A Google Earth sleuth claims to have found a figure that looks like an alien's face in the snow in Antarctica.  A satellite image shared on the r/strangeearth Reddit page last week has sparked ...

Surface melting for the Antarctic ice sheet appears to have set a record for the 46-year satellite observation period on January 2, 2025. All areas of the Antarctic coast that generally see ...

Scientists have mapped Antarctica’s ice-free ecosystems, highlighting their biodiversity and growing climate threats.

Antarctica's first sighting on January 28, 1820, by Russian explorers FF Bellingshausen and MP Lazarev marked the beginning ...

Colorado pastor Will Duffy’s obsession with the flat-Earth conspiracy theory began with a longtime friend’s post on Facebook.

ANN ARBOR — Amy and Tom Knutilla recently traveled to their seventh continent in a journey that was the first of its kind ... sailed the Drake Passage to Antarctica, visiting otherworldly ...

For instance, in the warm, calm eastern part of the Dotson ice shelf in west Antarctica, an autonomous robot observed basal terraces. In the west of Dotson – which experiences cold, fast ...

Although much of Antarctica has been chartered ... lakes and ice crevasses for the first time in the continent's history. In addition, the map is based on 1,073 remote sensing images acquired ...

The warmer Antarctica gets, the greener it gets: "Antarctica has experienced significant increases in temperature over the past 60 years," the study said. "With rates of warming highest in the West ...

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be ... it would melt the base of the ice shelf," study first author Nadine Steiger, a physical oceanographer at Sorbonne University in France, told ...