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

Scientists have discovered microplastics in the snow near some of Antarctica's deep field camps, revealing how far-reaching ...

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

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

Discovered by the West not much more than 200 years ago, Antarctica’s history is unique when compared to the six other ...

Scientists have discovered hidden treasures in the Earth's mantle. Hidden deep within Earth's mantle are two colossal ...

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

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 ...

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

The iceberg cometh. The spinning iceberg is approximately 1,500 square miles in size and located about 173 miles from the ...