Watch as researchers drop a camera into a deep borehole within West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, one of the most volatile and significant ice masses on Earth. Scientists from the British Antarctic ...

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

More than 50 skuas in Antarctica died from the high pathogenicity avian influenza virus H5N1 in the summers of 2023 and 2024, ...

Discovery Building at UK's Rothera Research Station completed by team including Bam, T&T and Ramboll to Hugh Broughton ...

Germany and New Zealand are stepping up cooperation in Antarctica as a signal against future ambitions by major global players. "We are jointly committed to ensuring that the continent remains a place ...

One of Earth’s most dangerous glaciers has claimed a victim: a suite of instruments that became trapped deep within the ice.

Many ships have tried to reach the floating tongue of Thwaites Glacier—a 130-kilometer-wide conveyor belt of ice that slides off West Antarctica’s coast and splinters into the sea. Thwaites is rapidly ...

A Turkish scientific team set off for the 10th National Antarctic Science Expedition and reached Antarctica after a ...

An international research team has established the first comprehensive identity archive for 207 known subglacial volcanoes in Antarctica, marking a significant advancement in polar research and ...

National Geographic joined a 50-day voyage to understand the mysterious creatures of the ice-locked southern continent.

Driven by self-reliance, Chinese explorers have moved steadily inland from Antarctica's periphery, continually expanding both their operational footprint and fields of scientific inquiry. This vast ...

The first tourists stepped ashore at Smith Island and Melchior Islands on the Antarctic Peninsula on January 23, 1966. Since ...