Some 34 million years ago, when Earth was significantly warmer than it is today, Antarctica froze over. It would take another ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 meters (171 ...

Learn how slow-moving mantle waves inside Earth may have lifted Antarctica’s ancient mountains, creating cold highlands where ...

Scientists have uncovered why Antarctica became engulfed by ice millions of years before the Arctic. The international ...

For a long time, the story seemed straightforward. As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels fell and the planet cooled, large ice ...

The marine rock around the fossil also suggests the animal likely ended up at sea after it died.

Scientists discovered that atmospheric rivers reaching Antarctica arrive at an angle, improving snowfall tracking and sea ...

Nearly a decade after she was rescued from a remote Antarctic research station after diagnosing herself with breast cancer, ...

More than 40 years after it was collected, an Antarctic fossil has been recognized as a far more consequential discovery than anyone first realized, according to Sci.News. The bone is now considered ...

The Kharkovchanka was a Soviet Antarctic vehicle built from tank technology, aircraft-style cabin ideas, and the brutal need ...

Fractures racing across Antarctica’s Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf are severing its last structural anchor to a submarine ridge, ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 metres, were it to fully melt. Yet it has puzzled scientists for decades how and why this ...