Antarctica plays a crucial role in Earth's climate system by reflecting solar radiation back into space. The large white ice ...

A new study lays out the best- and worst-case scenarios for a warming Antarctica. Which one becomes reality is entirely up to ...

The Antarctic mystery was solved following "a serendipitous alignment of observations," the researchers said.

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...

The climate crisis is warming Antarctica fast, with potentially disastrous consequences. Now scientists have modeled the best ...

Antarctic Peninsula projections show accelerating ice loss, warming oceans and global sea level impacts tied to greenhouse gas emissions.

The geoid (the surface of equal gravitational potential of a hypothetical ocean at rest) serves as the classical reference ...

Even Antarctica’s toughest native insect can’t escape the reach of plastic pollution. Scientists have discovered that Belgica ...

Plus NOAA's GOES-19 satellite spies the lunar disk crossing the face of our parent star.

Penguins Are Starting Families Sooner in Antarctica, and It’s Not Good News ...