Beneath Antarctica's icy surface, meltwater can reach the bedrock and speed up the movement of the ice. Direct observations ...

In Antarctica, two giant rifts, known as Chasm 1 and Halloween Crack, split across the Brunt Ice Shelf. The implications of ...

New measurements at Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier show parts of the ice are melting at rates up to 43 m per year, far higher ...

A robotic expedition beneath Antarctica's Filchner Ice Shelf has revealed what researchers describe as an 'underwater city' ...

Hidden beneath hundreds of metres of Antarctic ice lies one of the planet's most extraordinary wildlife spectacles. After ...

Researchers have identified the first-ever dinosaur fossil discovered on Antarctica, revealing it belonged to a titanosaur.

Some 34 million years ago, when Earth was significantly warmer than it is today, Antarctica froze over. It would take another 25 million years for ice to cover the Arctic, and the question of how the ...

Thirty million years separate the freezing of Antarctica from the glaciation of the Arctic, and for decades that gap made ...

Scientists have solved the century-old mystery of Antarctica's Blood Falls, revealing how ancient iron-rich brine escapes from beneath Taylor Glacier.

Antarctica is a destination of staggering extremes – home to the largest ice sheet on the planet, soaring 14,700-foot mountains, active "Ring of Fire" volcanoes and the coldest surface temperature ...

A rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica was tucked away for decades before finally being identified as part of a large titanosaur that once roamed Earth’s southernmost continent. The fossil was first ...