From diving off cliffs to starving for months, emperor penguins are continuing to surprise scientists with their ability to ...

In Antarctica's freezing depths, tiny creatures have mastered survival tactics that could unlock secrets to extreme cold ...

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

Sharpe was joined by Maya Thomas of Virginia Institute of Marine Science and Abby Tomita of Oregon State University. The ...

Researchers collected strange sea animals, including poisonous sea pigs and hand-sized sea spiders, while sailing to the ...

The NSF is beginning an operational retreat from Antarctica. Both the aging U.S. facilities and the research itself are ...

Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

Funding for the National Science Foundation, which finances research at US bases on the icy continent, has already been ...

A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice ...

The Scenic Eclipse is one of only a few Antarctic vessels to carry a submarine. The submarine—the Scenic Neptune —can carry up to six passengers per dive. The sub can go as far down as 1,000 feet and ...

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s ...