On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples ...

Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet blanketing Antarctica, ...

Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.

Times journalists were able to get tantalizingly close to the Thwaites glacier, which scientists are hoping to spend weeks ...

The Ice Memory Foundation, a consortium of European research institutes, inaugurated the frozen sanctuary on Wednesday at the ...

The storing of the very first heritage cores in Antarctica marks a pivotal moment for the Ice Memory project launched in 2015 ...

An ice core is something of a time capsule, containing the history of the Earth’s past atmosphere in a frozen climate archive ...

“If you imagined the Scottish Highlands or the European Alps were covered by ice and the only way to understand their shape ...

Microplastics have entered Antarctica’s soil ecosystem, subtly affecting its only native insect and revealing how far human pollution now reaches. An international team of scientists led by ...

After nearly two weeks at sea without being able to launch his drone, New York Times photographer Chang W. Lee finally ...

In a race against time to store vital scientific information, an ice sanctuary has been launched in Antarctica to preserve ...

What's under the ice? For the first time, scientists have been able to map the mountains and valleys under the ice of ...