An eight-week voyage to the bottom of the Earth helped the photojournalist Chang W. Lee better understand his late father.

The huge predator was caught swimming in waters 490 metres deep, at a temperature of 1.27C. According to the biologist, who is also the founding director of the University of Western Australia-based ...

A complicated interaction in which overlying ice, underlying rock, and an ancient lake bed form one of Earth’s most ...

More than half a mile beneath the surface of Antarctica's Kamb Ice Stream, scientists have uncovered a slow-moving river of ...

Scientists with the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre captured footage of a sleeper shark, one of the ocean's rare and mysterious long-lived species. Inkfish, UWA, Kelpie Geosciences Sharks can be ...

After a new upgrade, a neutrino observatory in Antarctica may identify dormant supermassive black holes within our galaxy.

A popular climate theory suggested that melting Antarctic glaciers would release iron into the ocean, sparking algae blooms that pull carbon dioxide from the air. New field data from West Antarctica ...

Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where gravity is slightly weaker than expected. Scientists have traced this “gravity ...

A peer-reviewed study published in the International Journal of Circumpolar Health has been cited for documenting what its author described as the oldest known human remains on Antarctic soil. The ...

In recent months, headlines about Antarctica’s ice loss have circulated widely. One claim says the continent has lost an area ...

In Antarctica, there’s a natural phenomenon that, for more than a century, has surprised scientists and explorers: an intense ...