Scientists using a submersible robot discovered patterns under the Antarctic ice that have never been seen before by humans.

Antarctica is one of only two places on the planet almost completely covered by ice sheets, with Greenland being the other. The Antarctic ice sheet covers about 98% of the continent's land mass ...

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

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

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

However, Antarctic sea ice, which surrounds the south pole, has shrunk to a near-record low. On 25 February, the Antarctic sea ice reached its minimum extent for the year, covering 722,000 sq ...

In the last few years, Antarctic sea ice has been behaving erratically. Sea ice cover has been much more variable than it used to be, with anomalies lasting much longer than previously documented.

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 ...