Microbial communities feeding on geothermal methane seeps beneath the Antarctic ice sheet could resemble life-supporting ...

From diving off cliffs to starving for months, emperor penguins are continuing to surprise scientists with their ability to ...

Antarctica is the world’s southernmost and least-populated continent… Unless you count its colonies of penguins, which are ...

Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.

As autumn settled over Antarctica, sea ice began its seasonal return, with NASA capturing striking images of new growth in ...

Crowds of tourists bound for Antarctica have brought prosperity to Argentina’s southernmost city, but the boom is also ...

Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.

The NSF is beginning an operational retreat from Antarctica. Both the aging U.S. facilities and the research itself are ...

Researchers collected strange sea animals, including poisonous sea pigs and hand-sized sea spiders, while sailing to the ...

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For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an ...

In Antarctica's freezing depths, tiny creatures have mastered survival tactics that could unlock secrets to extreme cold resistance, with implications for science and medicine. Some of the most ...