The 2025/2026 Antarctic season is a landmark for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and its Antarctic Infrastructure Modernization Project (AIMP), as the new Discovery Building begins to take on its ...

Over two and a half years, the robot traveled more than 300 kilometers beneath the Denman and Shackleton Ice Sheets. It ...

Imagine peeling back miles of frozen white and revealing valleys, rivers, and mountains that haven't seen sunlight in tens of ...

In the past, when West Antarctica melted, there was a rapid uptick in onshore geological activity in the area.

A new discovery of methane leaks in Antarctica could be a game-changer and potential near-term threat that’s difficult to characterize without sounding overly negative. Of course, situations like this ...

Antarctica might have a new kind of ice — diamonds might exist there, a new study finds, The finding, detailed online Dec. 17 in the journal Nature Communications, suggests the gems could be found on ...

The hidden river could accelerate ice loss. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A river longer than England's Thames flows beneath ...

Jun. 28—While recalling his visit to Antarctica in February on an expedition cruise, retired Navy Vice Admiral Chuck Munns talked about what it was like to float among the huge icebergs. "They are 10% ...

Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life except around the coasts. But this wasn't always the case. In 1833, naturalist James Eights found fossilized wood buried in the continent's ...

A huge penguin graveyard where hundreds of mummified animals lay strewn on the ground has been discovered in Antarctica, with one explorer describing the scene as a "killing field." In some areas, up ...

The discovery of the first active methane seep in Antarctica is providing scientists new understanding of the methane cycle and the role methane found in this region may play in warming the planet.