Antarctica is home to a peak shaped like a perfect pyramid — but contrary to what conspiracy theorists say, the mountain's four symmetrical faces were forged through natural processes.

Darren Edwards knows a lot about hopelessness; one minute, he was rock climbing in North Wales about to finish his route, and ...

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60% of the world's meteorites have been found in Antarctica. But what's it like for the teams who go out there to find them and what can we learn from these space rocks? Video by BBC health ...

Dating the underlying rocks will hopefully give scientists a good idea of the last time that this part of Antarctica was ice free. Laura is a science news writer, covering a wide variety of ...

Led by The Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), the scientists worked for more than 200 days, drilling into the ice and processing the ice core at a remote ...

Antarctica is home to over 100 volcanoes ... The findings indicate that as the ice melts, it relieves pressure on the rocks below, allowing the compressed magma to expand. This process increases ...

As a result, the P-RAID system is smaller and lighter than most drilling systems, making it ideally suited for deployment in Antarctica. Once the rock samples are returned to the UK, they will ...

Antarctica's rapid warming ... to thrive in nutrient-poor and harsh environmental conditions, growing on bare rocks and creating a foundation for subsequent soil formation. Mosses dominate ...