A fascinating discovery beneath Antarctica’s ice has sparked new questions about the continent's past.

Scientists studying pink granite boulders in West Antarctica have discovered a massive, ancient granite structure hidden ...

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

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

After 66 years of uncertainty, the remains of Dennis Bell, a British meteorologist who vanished in a crevasse while working ...

The National Science Foundation's massive IceCube neutrino detector at the South Pole just got a major new upgrade, which promises to take the search for "ghost particles" to a new level.

The British Antarctic Survey’s 4,500m 2 scientific support and operations facility, at Rothera Research Station on the ...

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 ...

A startling red waterfall, Blood Falls, flows in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys. Scientists have uncovered its secret. The ...

A blood-red waterfall in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys has fascinated researchers with its color since its discovery in 1911 ...

From Alaska to Georgia, many unbelievable discoveries have been made in snow.

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life ...