Life in Antarctica during mid-winter is defined by its absence of daylight. As the Australian Antarctic Program describes it: "For a few weeks each year the sun fails to rise on the world's most ...

Antarctica has its own 'shield' against warm water—but this could now be under threat by Ellie Ong, Edward Doddridge, Matthew England and Navid Constantinou, The Conversation ...

Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains. Some peaks, like the towering Transantarctic ...

Even before that, my great-grandfather traveled to Antarctica in 1989, snapping photos at Palmer Station, the year-round United States research station.

And Antarctica shows how it’s all intertwined "When you're kayaking up front with the whale or you see the glaciers and the magical ice, you just want to protect it," said Aaron Davis, a tourist ...

As the name of the map implies, this is the third effort to illustrate Antarctica’s rock bed. The project began in 2001, but the researchers involved say the new map represents a dramatic ...

In 1914, explorer Ernest Shackleton and his 27-man crew set sail on a journey to Antarctica. Their mission? To become the first people to ever cross the entire continent, which is roughly 1.3 ...

Antarctica is melting, and crucial details are beginning to come into focus of exactly how it's happening. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

So while some visitors to Antarctica want to brave the Drake Passage at least once, it makes sense that others would rather skip rolling the dice for the two-day journey en route to Antarctica ...

Antarctica is our planet's final frontier, a place where every year brings new discoveries that challenge what we thought we knew about our world. From prehistoric monsters lurking beneath the ice ...

Antarctica, the world's iciest continent, is 'greening' at a dramatic rate Even this vast and isolated ‘wilderness’ is being affected by climate change.

The ridges, in the bedrock below the ice sheet in Antarctica, provide a "resistive force" against the ice, Scambos said, that slows down its flow into the ocean.