Learn more about the rock librabry that holds ancient rocks and clues from ...

On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On ...

A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater ...

The East Antarctic Ice Sheet, a colossal expanse of ice spanning over 10 million square kilometers, has veiled a landscape millions of years old from the inquisitive eyes of science.

This area, which has remained untouched for over 34 million years, spans about 12,000 square miles and is located in a remote part of East Antarctica.

A 19-year-old pilot from the United States has been detained on an Antarctic island and charged by Chilean authorities, who ...

Ice loss in Antarctica and its impact on the planet – sea level rise, changes to ocean currents and disturbance of wildlife ...

Bedmap3 reveals new insights into the topography of Antarctica. Credit: Scientific Data (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41597-025-04672-y The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice ...

This frozen expanse, more than 10 million square kilometers wide, has long concealed a forgotten landscape. Buried under 2 kilometers of Antarctic ice, scientists find a 34-million-year-old lost world ...

According to an October 2024 study published in Nature Geoscience, vegetation is taking over the Antarctic Peninsula, turning its edges into a verdant landscape worthy of plein air painting.After ...

It was frozen in time. Antarctica wasn’t always a desolate icescape. International researchers announced the discovery of an over 30-million-year-old lost world beneath the Antarctic ice that ...

Antarctica: Landscape of ice. ... The ice sheet sitting atop Antarctica is so vast, up to 3 miles (5 km) thick in some places, that it pushes Earth's crust thousands of feet down.