Antarctica isn’t a floating chunk of ice like the Arctic. Beneath its frozen surface sits a solid continent of mountains, ...

Newsweek has created a map that lays bare the isolation of a South African research base in Antarctica where a team is reportedly trapped with a colleague who has become violent.

A new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed.

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

As Wired reports, even scientists at the United States Antarctic Program (USAP), which operates three permanent stations on the southernmost continent, are feeling the hurt. Over a thousand people ...