Scientists said the loss hinders their work and diminishes America’s leading presence on the continent. The NSF said it ...

In the heart of Antarctica, an ecological alarm is sounding. The Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica, has been discovered ingesting microplastics, a sign that ...

Antarctica is warming roughly twice as fast as the rest of the planet, putting its vast ice sheets, surrounding oceans, and ...

A global research team led by researchers from the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and ...

Maps of Antarctica date back to when Roman geographer and astronomer Ptolemy envisioned a land in the southern hemisphere to counterbalance that in the north to satisfy an ancient sense of proportion.

Flat Earth theories have circulated for years, but a recent post adds another element to the theory – a claim that the world is surrounded by an ice wall. An Oct. 29 Instagram post includes a photo of ...

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Very few places on Earth feel truly untouched. Antarctica is one of them.It’s the coldest, driest, and windiest continent, ...

It was five years ago this month that ESA’s GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding buried treasure – giving a new view of the remnants of lost ...

As long as humans have known of its existence, they have wanted to visit Antarctica. It is the world’s least visited, least populated continent. On the best day, it is extremely hard to get to. And ...