Satellite imagery has revealed a yet-to-be-explained rise in the Southern Ocean's salinity. It could be a key factor in the ...

East Antarctica is the largest ice sheet on Earth. Alone, it holds enough frozen water to raise global sea levels by a ...

The remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East Antarctica have been discovered—and ...

Antarctica may seem pristine and almost devoid of life, but there's plenty of chemistry going on. Victoria Atkinson explains ...

DOGE cut hundreds of jobs at the NWS, but experts who spoke to WIRED say the agency accurately predicted the state's weekend ...

The South Pole Telescope has released its most precise image yet of the universe’s first light—the cosmic microwave background. This new ground-based data confirms cosmic expansion anomalies and ...

What we saw in the DESI experiments, and now strengthened by our South Pole Telescope observations, is that dark energy is ...

About 4,000 scientists travel around the vast, ice-covered continent of Antarctica each year to look at topics ranging from climate change to the search for dark matter, and prior to 2007, they were ...

This is the moment the China-owned Zhongshan Station in Antarctica captured a beautiful timelapse of an extremely intense aurora on June 1. Expedition teams at the station say geomagnetic ...

The volcano threatening the Spanish military base in Antarctica Scientists and the military are monitoring in real time the deformation of Deception Island, where past eruptions destroyed stations ...

The establishment of research stations in Antarctica and first crossing of the continent by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (TAE) captured public attention.

This is the Antarctica research crew trapped in icy hell with co-worker who ‘snapped and started attacking them’ ...