If a cruise to Antarctica is on a traveler’s bucket list, they’ll likely need to cross the notoriously treacherous Drake ...

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

The environment is changing rapidly around the melting Thwaites Glacier. Seals can collect data in waters that ships could ...

If you’ve been following Miles O’Brien’s reports from Antarctica, you know he’s with an international group of researchers ...

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

The ABC has been given rare access to an abandoned Australian base in Antarctica that continues to pose a threat to the environment.

Antarctica's Blood Falls, a rusty red cascade from Taylor Glacier, has baffled scientists since 1911. Recent high-resolution ...

After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on ...

Antarctica is a formidable icy seductress, provoking feelings of wonder and trepidation in varying degrees like nowhere else on earth. Ever since the White Continent was formally discovered a little ...

The Discovery Building features a wind deflector that prevents snow from piling up next to the building. It could change how we build in harsh climates. It has been two weeks since Winter Storm Fern ...

The seismologist speaks with Diario AS from Antarctica, where he reflects on three decades of scientific research on Livingston Island.

At the edge of Antarctica’s Taylor Glacier, a bright red stream pours out onto stark white ice, looking uncannily like blood. Known as Blood Falls, this phenomenon has unsettled explorers and puzzled ...