Volcanoes erupting isn’t what most people think of, but this scene could happen as the frozen continent melts, a study has ...

The same team previously drilled a core about 800,000 years old. The latest drilling went 2.8 kilometers (about 1.7 miles) deep, with a team of 16 scientists and support personnel drilling each summer ...

At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core represents the oldest known ice on the planet. The 1.7 mile-long ice core was recovered from over 9,000 feet (2,800 meters) deep ...

An international team of scientists say they’ve drilled nearly 2 miles to Antarctic bedrock, retrieving one of the oldest ice cores at 1.2 million years old.

Scientists have drilled a deep hole in the Antarctic bedrock that may hold information that dates back more than a million years.

A Portsmouth scientist aboard a Royal Navy icebreaker is uncovering the damage plastic waste is having on Antarctica.

For decades, we studied only a tiny number of Antarctica's emperor penguins. Now robots and satellites are revealing ...

An international team of scientists successfully drilled a 2,800-meter-long ice core, reaching the bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. These ice ...