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

A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of ...

Antarctic Ice Shelves Reach Critical State by 2085 Ocean-driven melting could trigger rapid sea level rise if ice barriers ...

Sean McKaveney balances full-time legal work with extreme endurance prep training for one of the world’s coldest, windiest ...

A study published today found that while ice shelves in West Antarctica melt year-round, those in East Antarctica experience ...

As the map shows, the naked land beneath the Antarctic ice sheet is a rugged land, covered in mountain ranges, gorges, and jagged terrain. Remarkably, one part of the bed found under the Byrd Glacier ...

An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old.And if at some point we do not find ice that ...

Have you ever wondered how some life forms keep going in places so cold we’d call them frozen? Places humans wouldn't dare ...

China's 42nd Antarctic expedition aims to conduct groundbreaking drilling experiments to explore the continent's natural resources and evolution.

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...

Silver Endeavor’s upcoming Antarctic sailing has been cancelled because weather conditions have made its embarkation port ...

Explainer - Weather forecasters say the last couple weeks haven't been normal, "even by spring's standards". But why?