A massive iceberg broke off from the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica in January, giving researchers a rare opportunity to ...

Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt ...

Scientists have determined that at least six new aquatic species have been thriving under an Antarctic ice shelf.

Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed map yet" of Antarctica's landscape beneath its blanket of ice, a ...

Crustaceans, snails, worms and fish are among the dozens of creatures that deep-sea explorers discovered under a massive ...

A pair of researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada, working with a colleague from the Scripps Institution of ...

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new ...

When the crew aboard an ocean science expedition learned that an iceberg the size of Chicago had broken off from an Antarctic ice shelf, they knew they had to stop what they were doing immediately ...

Scientific Data (2025). Creative Commons. Scientists have unveiled the most detailed map yet of the landscape hidden beneath Antarctica's ice. The high-resolution map reveals what the frozen ...

Millions of years from now, it may be jungle again. But for all of human history, Antarctica has been ice-covered and desolate. Explorers struggled to survive, and researchers struggled to ...