An annular eclipse swept over a remote corridor of Antarctica on Feb. 17.

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

A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might ...

The simulations showed that the gravity hole was initially much less pronounced. Between roughly 50 million and 30 million years ago, however, it intensified significantly. This period coincides with ...

Many of us know Antarctica as a land of ice and not much else. But hidden beneath the miles of glaciers and ice sheets lies a ...

A process has been discovered beneath the Antarctic ice that could weaken carbon sequestration and accelerate climate change.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet ...

Strip away Antarctica’s ice and the familiar white disc at the bottom of the map dissolves into something far stranger: a broken ring of mountains, deep basins and flooded valleys that would redraw ...

Forte and colleagues now believe Antarctica’s gravity hole was weaker before eventually intensifying around 30 to 50 million years ago. This corresponds to large-scale changes in the continent’s ...

We had the Falklands and South Georgia to ourselves, and we really only encountered other ships on two of the days we were in ...