Scientists recently discovered that plant life is taking over the Antarctic Peninsula, turning the edges of a once-barren ...

Beneath Antarctica’s thick ice sheets, researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery. Microorganisms thriving in extreme ...

ANTARCTICA has won intrigue for centuries ... allowing a large hole the form. Scientists have discovered that the Ross Ice Shelf - the largest ice shelf on the continent at more than 600km long ...

On this day in 1902, the Discovery Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott attained a Farthest South at 82°17′S in Antarctica.

Scientists investigating the frozen Lake Enigma in Antarctica discovered an ecosystem teeming with strange microbial ...

Let's set the record straight: NASA has not found a parallel universe. The claims making the rounds on social media are not ...

As we wind toward the year's end we often find ourselves thinking about the future, but sometimes it takes a rare nugget from ...

A 2018 satellite photo shows the aptly named Deception Island, which was formed by a massive eruption 4,000 years ago and ...

Antarctica's hidden wonders include warm caves beneath Mount Erebus, the world's largest fish nursery in the Weddell Sea, and a prehistoric subglacial lake. A deep ocean trench, ice-dwelling ...

Lake Enigma sits between two glaciers, Amorphous and Boulder Clay, in Antarctica’s Northern Foothills. Given the area’s average temperature of 6.8 degrees Fahrenheit (-14 degrees Celsius) and lows of ...

With winds that that can reach up to 200mph, Antarctica is no stranger to eerie sounds. Scientists have discovered that the Ross Ice Shelf - the largest ice shelf on the continent at more than ...