Researchers did not expect the huge size of the meteorite given the frigid continent's history of thousands of space rocks ...

NASA’s ICESat-2 has hit an incredible milestone: 2 trillion laser shots fired from orbit! This Earth-monitoring marvel has ...

Stanford researchers have integrated machine learning with high-resolution satellite and aerial observations to analyze the ...

Satellite images taken at the beginning of March show the iceberg parked on a shallow underwater shelf off the coast of South ...

A single Antarctic krill is about the size of your pinky finger. But with an estimated population of more than 700 trillion ...

In Antarctica, the birds’ nutrient-rich guano ... And, since poop stains on the ice are sometimes visible from space, scientists have used the birds’ feces to identify multiple previously ...

Scientists say subtle differences in the colour of seawater will enable them to count tiny - but critically important - Antarctic marine creatures, from Space. The target of the new research ...

Antarctica’s only native insect could provide inspiration for how humans could travel into deep space. The tiny midge called Belgica antarctica manages to live in the freezing continent by essentially ...

These data combine a wide variety of field campaigns conducted in Antarctica since the 1980s, both by aircraft, ship, but also on foot and from space. The scientists thus collected an impressive ...

Antarctic ice sheets are the thermostat of the ... bouncing sunlight back into space. In doing so, they keep the Earth cool (this is called the albedo effect). But as we lose those vast white ...