The first solar eclipse of the year will grace Antarctica, and only a lucky few will get to bask – or waddle – in its glow.

In A Nutshell Antarctica, not the Indian Ocean, hosts Earth’s strongest nonhydrostatic geoid depression when scientists measure against a reference frame that isolates internal mantle dynamics The ...

Even Antarctica’s toughest native insect can’t escape the reach of plastic pollution. Scientists have discovered that Belgica antarctica — a tiny, rice-sized midge and the southernmost insect on Earth ...

After 66 years beneath Antarctic ice, the remains of British meteorologist Dennis Bell have been recovered, as retreating glaciers reveal a frozen chapter of history.

An international team led by researchers at the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and ...

Decades of Assumptions Proven Wrong as Scientists Finally Uncover the 'Hidden Landscape' That Lies Beneath Antarctica's Ice ...

A high-risk mission to Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica's "doomsday glacier," faced setbacks as instruments became trapped deep ...

Picture Antarctica not as a smooth, frozen plain, but as a rugged world of mountains, valleys, and deep channels buried ...

Beneath Antarctica's vast expanse of ice sit hundreds of canyons, some up to tens of thousands of feet deep. These complex formations under a seemingly barren landscape play a significant role in ...

ROME (AP) — Scientists in Antarctica on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth’s atmosphere in a frozen vault for future ...

Scientists at Antarctic stations are battling extreme cold to capture a rare solar eclipse. This high-stakes mission could ...

Antarctica's Blood Falls were first observed by Australian geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor during the Terra Nova expedition in 1911.