Antarctica is also known to have some of the most extreme and harsh environments on the planet, where life struggles to exist ...

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Unusual radio waves were discovered below the surface of Antarctica over a decade ago, which follow-up studies are trying to explain.

Antarctica hides mountains, lakes, and valleys beneath miles of ice. Using radar and drilling, scientists are slowly ...

Four-year record of ocean processes beneath the Ross Ice Shelf suggests water quality varies throughout the year within the cavity.

Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...

In fact, the beautiful aurora that we sometimes see in the night sky is caused by extra strong energy outbursts from our Sun ...

Finding herself in charge of her sick husband’s clipper, a self-taught working-class teenager overcame storms, icebergs and a disloyal first mate to get her ship to safety ...

A lone penguin from Werner Herzog’s Antarctica documentary becomes a viral symbol of burnout. Here’s what it means and where ...

In some of the driest parts of southern Africa, rock faces hold quiet records of much older worlds. Marble and limestone ...

The culprit behind Greenland's sinking seas is not only climate change, but also a dramatic phenomenon that happens ...