Measuring roughly 1,350 square miles (3,500 square kilometers) across, A23a is the world's largest and oldest iceberg ...

The world's biggest iceberg is drifting toward a tiny south Atlantic island, potentially affecting the wildlife there, ...

Meijers warned that icebergs have previously grounded near the island, causing significant ... University of Santiago and part of the National Antarctic Research Committee said he was confident ...

A 130-foot towering wall of ice with a surface area larger than Rhode Island is slowly making its way toward a remote island near Antarctica. Imagine if the ice wall from Game of Thrones were mobile ...

A British ship flying the Falkland Islands flag has sparked diplomatic tensions with Argentina.

“Atmospheric rivers” are bringing rain to the frozen slopes of the West Antarctic ice sheet, hitting the ice shelves that ...

The iceberg had been stuck in a rotating water column near the South Orkney Islands since last April, said Andrew Meijers from the British Antarctic Survey. "It has now come loose from this ...

The trillion-ton slab of ice that scientists call a "megaburg" broke off from the Antarctic’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986. Scientists catalogued it under the name A23a. It was stuck at sea for decades ...

Enjoy the fruits of their labor. Take a look. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, a British territory near Antarctica, is home to a quarter of all penguins on earth. David Swindler ...

Antarctica is a place rife with opportunities for discovery, but strangely enough, the discovery of the continent itself is something of a contested topic.

Ultra-marathon runner Samantha Harper poses during part of a grueling Antarctic race ... a particularly memorable day on Danco Island, a scenic stop near the Errera Channel.