With Antarctica's climate warming at an unprecedented rate, scientists are battling with dangerously thin ice and equipment falling through into the sea.

Jacob Chalif is helping gather old ice from the Allan Hills in Antarctica. Scientists can use air bubbles and other information to understand more about what Earth’s past climates were like, and what ...

Operation Highjump was an enormous U.S. military expedition to Antarctica that began in December 1946 and ultimately lasted just a few months.

A Dec. 13 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a picture of a research vessel positioned near a tall, sheer-faced ice shelf and makes a series of claims about Antarctica. Its caption reads: "It is the Antarctic continent, consisting...

Twentieth-century surveys revealed the landscape beneath the Antarctic ice using radio echo-sounding, a technique that emerged largely by accident.