When one considers the term “Continent of Science,” one may think of an area filled with the presence of universities or other hubs of science or technology. But, within the geographical and science ...

Yucheng Lin, City University of Hong Kong and Robert Kopp, Rutgers University Sea-level rise is one of the most visible signs ...

Antarctica facts reveal red waterfalls, hidden lakes, white-blooded fish, singing ice, a lava lake, and other real phenomena ...

Scientists have mapped an ancient landscape buried beneath Antarctica's massive ice sheet, revealing mountains, deep valleys, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antarctica is usually unoccupied except for scientists, wealthy tourists, and adventurers. Surprisingly, though, a small number of ...

A team of scientists has uncovered what may be one of the largest hidden geological structures on Earth — a continent-sized "megastructure" buried deep beneath Antarctica. It's so massive, in fact, ...

A tiny seed is stuck between loose gravel and coarse sand. There is nothing else alive around it. All it can see is a wall of ice reaching 20 meters up into the sky. It is cold. Survival is hard ...

My husband and I just marked a significant milestone by visiting our seventh continent together: Antarctica. During the past 20 years, our mutual love for exploration has taken us to every corner of ...

It was five years ago this month that ESA’s GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding buried treasure – giving a new view of the remnants of lost ...

From penguin colonies to polar camping, find out when to go, how to get there, and what to expect on your first expedition.

It was a bright, sunny afternoon during the recent summer season in Antarctica when the Seabourn Pursuit cruise ship rammed into a sheet of sea ice in Hanusse Bay. The ship plowed forward, ice ...