The ecosystem is home to seamounts, hydrothermal vents, deep-sea trenches and species found only in its freezing water. They ...

Scientists have captured stunning video of a dinner-plate-size sea spider crawling on the seafloor off the South Sandwich ...

The researchers and base personnel remain in Antarctica for approximately 15 months working through the cold and dark winter ...

It’s the kind of event that when it happens, you leave whatever you’re doing,” said Patricia Esquete, the expedition’s chief scientist.

South African officials say a member of a research team at an isolated Antarctica base has been put under psychological ...

The World Meteorological Organisation’s State of the Global Climate 2024 report also highlights three years of record glacier loss, record air and ocean temperatures, the highest atmospheric CO levels ...

For all of human history, Antarctica has been ice-covered and desolate. Now, a new model shows the hidden continent beneath ...

A gigantic iceberg cracked off Antarctica on Jan. 13, revealing a swath of ocean that had not seen daylight in decades. Researchers decided to search the seafloor under the freshly exposed ocean. What ...

Studies on Antarctica have documented how temperatures, glaciers, oceans and wildlife are reacting to the warming ...

The British Antarctic Survey has revealed a new map showing what Antarctica looks like under the several thousands of meters ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...

"The map gives us a clear view of the white continent as if its 27 million cubic km of ice have been removed, revealing the ...