2.8 miles of ice. That’s all that is keeping a 6,000 square kilometer size chunk of ice attached to Antarctica. That’s bigger than ...

It measures 70 miles long, 300 feet wide and nearly a third of a mile deep. Last month, NASA’s IceBridge mission snapped a ...

And it could be the world’s largest. A team of scientists, led by Durham University, spotted the massive canyon system in one of ...

Researchers from UC Santa Cruz lowered a probe more than a half mile below the ice into the sediments below Subglacial Lake Whillans. ...

Fun fact: Antarctica is the world’s largest desert. And, a new find under the McMurdo Dry Valleys could have implications for life on ...

Emperor penguins may dominate Antarctica now, but even they had trouble during the last ice age. A new study is out this week ...

West Antarctica loses the ice equivalent of Mt. Everest every two years according to a new study. Scientists from the University of California, ...

Studying in the Antarctic has always been incredibly difficult for researchers. Frigid temperatures, weather and just pure logistics cause immediate headaches when planning expeditions. ...

Polar ice is melting. That much is for sure. How it’s melting is what scientists want to figure out. They suspect Antarctica’s melting ...