A baited camera captured a sleeper shark in the Southern Ocean for the first time. Sharks have survived mass extinctions, ...

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...

If a cruise to Antarctica is on a traveler’s bucket list, they’ll likely need to cross the notoriously treacherous Drake ...

A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might ...

The ABC has been given rare access to an abandoned Australian base in Antarctica that continues to pose a threat to the environment.

If you’ve been following Miles O’Brien’s reports from Antarctica, you know he’s with an international group of researchers ...

The environment is changing rapidly around the melting Thwaites Glacier. Seals can collect data in waters that ships could ...

Antarctica is a formidable icy seductress, provoking feelings of wonder and trepidation in varying degrees like nowhere else on earth. Ever since the White Continent was formally discovered a little ...

The Discovery Building features a wind deflector that prevents snow from piling up next to the building. It could change how ...

After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on ...

Antarctica's Blood Falls, a rusty red cascade from Taylor Glacier, has baffled scientists since 1911. Recent high-resolution ...

The moon will pass directly in front of the sun on Feb. 17, setting the stage for a dramatic annular solar eclipse.