On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On ...

A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting ...

There are strange radio waves miles above Antarctica’s ice and scientists aren’t exactly sure what’s causing them. The radio pulses could “hint at” new particles or interactions between known ...

A sudden salinity spike in the Southern Ocean is accelerating Antarctic ice loss and triggering a dangerous climate feedback ...

The Cosmic Microwave Background, also known as the earliest light of the universe, was captured through SPT-3G in the South Pole Telescope.

The crew of the Que Sera Sera, a Navy transport plane, at the South Pole on Oct. 31, 1956. The plane's pilot, Lt. Cmdr. Conrad “Gus” Shinn, is third from left.

Last, due to its location near Earth’s magnetic South Pole, Antarctica provides an ideal platform for studying the ionosphere and magnetosphere, with the goal of understanding how solar winds ...

Antarctic sea ice drops to a near-record LOW: Shocking maps reveal how the South Pole is missing thousands of miles of ice - and scientists say global warming is to blame ...

The researchers on South Africa’s SANAE IV outpost won’t be relieved until December, when temperatures at the South Pole are at their warmest for the year and seasonal ice storms pass.

This more refined map has double the data points of the previous version, and these 82 million points have been rendered in three dimensions. We now know far more about areas around the South Pole, ...

The magnetic north pole’s movement, which has suddenly accelerated toward Siberia this century, raises questions about what’s driving the unusual shift and why its motion matters.