At the edge of East Antarctica, where the wind howls through a white emptiness and the air bites harder than steel, ...

Beneath the ice of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, scientists discovered a vast, organized city of fish nests revealed after the ...

The National Science Foundation COLDEX project drilled three Allan Hills cores from depths of 150, 159, and 206 meters (492, 522, and 676 feet, respectively). In these cores, the researchers hoped to ...

In 2022, an international team of scientists sent a 20-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named “Ran” to traverse ...

Ancient Antarctic Sea Monster May Have Laid This Football-Size Egg. A 68 million-year-old egg the size of a football — the largest soft-shelled egg on record and the second largest egg ever discovered ...

In 1915, a wooden ship was crushed by Antarctic ice and vanished beneath 3,000 meters of water. For over a century, explorers searched for the wreck that symbolized courage and human survival. In 2022 ...

An underwater robot called Lassie has discovered "remarkable" icefish nests while searching for Sir Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship, The Endurance.

Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, infamously sank in Antarctica — and now a new study finds that it had known flaws.

Antarctica's winter sea ice has hit its third-lowest peak in nearly half a century of satellite monitoring, researchers said Tuesday, highlighting the growing influence of climate change on the planet ...

In a remote part of Antarctica's Western Weddell Sea, an area once hidden beneath a 200-metre-thick ice shelf, scientists have uncovered a new and ...

A study published today in Earth System Dynamics provides a critical and previously underestimated connection between Antarctic sea ice, cloud cover, and global warming. This research is important ...

A researcher believes he's cracked the mystery behind the sinking of Sir Ernest Shackleton's legendary ship Endurance. Part of one of the most famous Antarctic expeditions in history, Endurance set ...