Antarctica isn’t forbidden—but it’s one of the most tightly regulated and inhospitable places on the planet. Extreme weather, ...

A new study shows that slow, deep rock currents inside the Earth have helped shape the planet's strongest large-scale ...

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Isolated from the rest of the world by massive oceans and harsh weather conditions, Antarctica has become a habitat for ...

The first tourists stepped ashore at Smith Island and Melchior Islands on the Antarctic Peninsula on January 23, 1966. Since ...

Did you know that a region in Antarctica called McMurdo Dry Valleys haven't experienced rainfall for over two million years?

An expedition to Antarctica has brought scientists and researchers to the widest glacier on Earth. The Thwaites Glacier is ...

The swimsuit-clad tourists leap into the icy water, gasping at the shock, and startling a gaggle of penguins. And their very presence might accelerate its demise. Antarctica, a vast territory ...

Antarctic icefish have clear blood, no hemoglobin, and antifreeze proteins that let them survive freezing seas.

Meltwater is scrambling chemical signals in mountain glaciers, pushing scientists to store fragile ice cores in Antarctica.

Launched on Dec. 20, it would travel for the next 23 days on a NASA balloon along the very highest reaches of the atmosphere, ...