From above, Antarctica looks simple. Just a massive white continent at the bottom of the world. Endless ice. Endless cold. For centuries, explorers and ...

Sleeper sharks live extraordinarily long lives and can thrive in near-freezing ocean temperatures near Earth's poles.

Scientists have discovered a rare red-coloured bacterium in an Antarctic lake that can survive extreme cold and intense UV radiation. The microbe could have important applications in biotechnology, ...

The huge predator was caught swimming in waters 490 metres deep, at a temperature of 1.27C. According to the biologist, who is also the founding director of the University of Western Australia-based ...

Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where gravity is slightly weaker than expected. Scientists have traced this “gravity ...

A complicated interaction in which overlying ice, underlying rock, and an ancient lake bed form one of Earth’s most ...

In recent months, headlines about Antarctica’s ice loss have circulated widely. One claim says the continent has lost an area of ice equal to ten cities the size of Los Angeles over the past three ...

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier stunned scientists by retreating eight kilometers in just two months, with nearly half of it ...

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Three decades of satellite observations reveal how warming ocean water is pushing some Antarctic glaciers further inland.

Scientists have discovered over 300 submarine canyons beneath Antarctica, a finding that could potentially accelerate ice melt and impact global climate.

The McMurdo docking pier, (built as the barge NSF DIscovery Pier) constructed by Gunderson Marine & Iron (GM&I) for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has successfully arrived at McMurdo Station, ...