What makes the Antarctic continent different from all other continents on our planet is that no permanent settlements or ...

Grounded ice rests on the bedrock of the Antarctic continent, while ice shelves float above the rock on a pool of seawater.

The eerie structures imaged by Ran are the result of melting that's undercutting the Dotson shelf, creating an unstable ...

Antarctica's "Blood Falls" glacier bleeds red water, and scientists found hidden pressure beneath the mysterious millennial ...

An autonomous submarine named Ran discovers strange structures under the Dotson Ice Shelf in Antarctica, before mysteriously ...

Ice loss in Antarctica and its impact on the planet—sea level rise, changes to ocean currents and disturbance of wildlife and food webs—has been in the news a lot lately. All of these threats were ...

In 1902, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott spotted a large group of large black and white birds at Ross Island, Antarctica ...

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star deployed from Seattle in November on the 146-day mission supporting Operation Deep Freeze.

In January 1774, Captain James Cook’s third and final attempt to sail south in search of the elusive Terra Australis was blocked by impenetrable sea ice. A frustrated Cook left the question of a ...

Antarctica is losing ice mass to the ocean, contributing to global sea level rise. But a popular video misrepresented work focused on Antarctic ice shelves — which float in the sea at the edges of the ...

Camp near the Geographic South Pole where all 360 lines of longitude meet and every direction points north. See the Ceremonial Pole and flags of the original Antarctic Treaty signatory nations.

I'm determined to take my kids to the end of the earth. A once-in-a-lifetime expedition to Antarctica exceeded all of our ...