Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

Crowds of tourists bound for Antarctica have brought prosperity to Argentina’s southernmost city, but the boom is also ...

Expedition reveals rare glimpse of one of the sea’s most mysterious predators ...

Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.

The NSF is beginning an operational retreat from Antarctica. Both the aging U.S. facilities and the research itself are imperiled.

Scientists have just revealed a major new discovery hidden beneath Antarctica's icy surface—and it’s changing everything we ...

A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck southwest of Albany, Western Australia, in the Indian Ocean. No tsunami warning was issued ...

In Antarctica's freezing depths, tiny creatures have mastered survival tactics that could unlock secrets to extreme cold resistance, with implications for science and medicine. Some of the most ...

A team of scientists set out on the research ship Falkor (too) in February for a 35-day expedition off the South Sandwich Islands, a chain of subantarctic islands. Their main goal was to use a ...

A one-foot-long young squid was spotted swimming in the waters around the South Sandwich Islands. The footage is ...

Ice cores that record 1.2 million years of Earth’s atmosphere are on their way to Europe to be analysed, and an Australian ...

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