The discovery, published in Nature Geoscience, reveals one of the largest deep-Earth structures ever mapped on the continent.

People have died or gone mad on the icy continent, but artists, scientists and filmmakers keep going back. A new exhibition ...

Antarctica tends to be described in numbers first. Temperatures that fall far below what most instruments are built for, wind ...

Glaciers contain priceless information about the Earth’s climate history. Ice Memory Foundation is leading a project to ...

Buried way underneath Antarctica’s ice, researchers have found an enormous, continent-sized network of basins we never knew ...

Temperatures have climbed up to 45 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, stopping ice from forming in the dead of Antarctic winter ...

Because the province extends under a large part of East Antarctica, it may affect the way overlying ice shifts, melts, and ...

The entire continent of Antarctica lies under ice sheets that can run thousands of meters thick, keeping its ancient bedrock ...

Learn more about tourism in Antarctica and how we may be leaving more of a carbon footprint on this pristine place than we ...

A team led by a geophysicist in Italy now believes that about 90% of Earth’s fresh water ice may not be on solid ground after ...

It was five years ago this month that ESA’s GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding buried treasure – giving a new view of the remnants of lost ...

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.