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.

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 ...

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

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 ...

Sharpe was joined by Maya Thomas of Virginia Institute of Marine Science and Abby Tomita of Oregon State University. The ...

Funding for the National Science Foundation, which finances research at US bases on the icy continent, has already been ...

In the freezing landscapes of Antarctica, an unlikely car would makes its home. Throughout the 1960s, Australia used ...