Antarctica's patterns of stark seasonal changes, with months of darkness followed by a summer of 24-hour daylight, prompted ...

At the bottom of the world lies a region as magnificent as it is misunderstood: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Harsh, ...

Antarctica has hidden beneath its great mantle of ice and snow an impressive geological feature among many other things. This ...

HP Expedition will begin the largest kayaking and camping program in Antarctica history. Here's what cruisers can choose to ...

After a dramatic 1971 incident in which the sole medical doctor at a USSR station had to cut out his own appendix, some countries made appendectomies a requirement for their “winter-over” medical ...

Large flat surfaces carved by ancient rivers deep beneath the East Antarctica are influencing how ice flows across the continent today, according to a new study.

Researchers found ancient river-carved plains beneath East Antarctica that may help slow ice loss and improve sea-level rise ...

Much like traditional ocean cruising, there are a range of expedition operators with varying price points, inclusions and ...

She also aims to enhance the precision of very high-resolution satellite imagery for monitoring Adélie penguin colonies in ...

A frozen river system lost to time may hold the key to Earth’s survival — and it's hiding in plain sight under the Antarctic ice sheet.

The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Trump administration and actions by ...

A 19-year-old pilot from the United States has been detained on an Antarctic island and charged by Chilean authorities, who ...