The Polar Star is making the trip as part of Operation Deep Freeze, the annual resupply of U.S. outposts under the U.S.

Antarctica is often seen as frozen, silent, and unchanging, with sharp winds, cold waters, and endless ice. But even this ...

If you were to wander along the parts of Antarctica that are ice-free, you might be surprised to see something soft and ...

Antarctica is shedding ice, heat, and stability in ways that are no longer confined to obscure scientific journals or distant ...

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures rose and the early Holocene began, during which time ...

Neumayer III Antarctic station was built on 16 hydraulic stilts that can lift the 20,000-square-foot facility over the ...

Beneath kilometers of ice in East Antarctica, a team of geoscientists led by geophysicist Stewart Jamieson of Durham ...

We take a look at a handful misconceptions about Antarctica, from its alleged populations of bears to its current ownership.

Weathered rocks sitting above the ice hold iron concentrations up to ten times higher than earlier reports from elsewhere in ...

When humans manage to cut enough emissions and eventually reduce global temperatures, new research shows the Southern Ocean ...

Portuguese airline Hi Fly has made aviation history after successfully landing an Airbus A330 in Antarctica for the first ...