Antarctica's nearest neighbour is the tip of South America, although this is still around 1,000km away. It would take over two days to reach it by boat. The Geographic South Pole is the most ...

The researchers and base personnel remain in Antarctica for approximately 15 months working through the cold and dark winter ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...

A new study shows that the mere presence of poop prompted the crustaceans to launch into evasive maneuvers. New research ...

The updated map of Antarctica clearly shows the landscape beneath its massive ice sheet, including its tallest mountains and ...

there are Amundsen-Scott Station at the geographic south pole, and Palmer Station, north of the Antarctic peninsula. “If I was going to describe it in musical form,” Nelson says ...

For years, the BAS has been studying the bedrock beneath Antarctica's thick ice using advanced radar, sound waves, and gravity mapping techniques.