"But Antarctica is not an apolitical human paradise with untouched nature—a sort of continent for scientific inquiry alone.

What’s it like to study Earth’s climate, forecast the weather, and train the next generation of meteorologists? Ohio ...

On a January morning in 2025, an iceberg the size of Chicago broke free from the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica. It ...

Underneath Antarctica’s endless sheets of ice lies a hidden world of deep valleys, towering peaks, and sprawling plains. For ...

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

Climate change is also driving penguins to colonize new areas, or to stay in regions longer than they normally would, ...

Antarctica’s total ice volume is now estimated at 27.17 million cubic kilometers (6.52 million cubic miles). The ice sheet ...

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

Australian polar explorer Eric Philips will be launched into space as part of the first crewed mission to orbit the North and ...

The Earth has seven continents that were once part of Pangaea, with Asia being the largest, Australia the smallest, and ...