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

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 meters (171 ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 metres, were it to fully melt. Yet it has puzzled scientists for decades how and why this ...

Learn how slow-moving mantle waves inside Earth may have lifted Antarctica’s ancient mountains, creating cold highlands where ...

Some 34 million years ago, when Earth was significantly warmer than it is today, Antarctica froze over. It would take another ...

It was five years ago this month that ESA’s GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding buried treasure – giving a new view of the remnants of lost ...

It's just a question of whether we're fast enough to stretch out that loss to several thousand years versus dumb enough to ...

People have died or gone mad on the icy continent, but artists, scientists and filmmakers keep going back. A new exhibition ...

My husband and I just marked a significant milestone by visiting our seventh continent together: Antarctica. During the past 20 years, our mutual love for exploration has taken us to every corner of ...

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