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

A powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake drew renewed attention to Antarctica, where advanced mapping technologies are revealing ...

A region beneath Antarctica where gravity is measurably weaker than anywhere else on Earth has puzzled geophysicists for ...

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

New Antarctic research shows the deepest layer of the Southern Ocean is shrinking faster than scientists realized, with the ...

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

Most Antarctic cruise operators visit the same Peninsula locations — Gerlache Strait, Lemaire Channel, Paradise Harbor — ...

Antarctica's role in global warming may be underestimated, a new study reveals. Researchers found Antarctic sea ice, cloud ...

At first glance, puffins and penguins look like they could be cousins. Both wear the same black-and-white outfit, waddle on ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

King penguins, elephant seals and gigantic icebergs make for a wild five-star escape inspired by Ernest Shackleton’s ...