Many of us perceive Antarctica as a distant and mysterious corner of the world. The coldest and most wind-swept region on ...

An inside look at the HX Nansen, including its science program, zodiac excursions, and amenities, like its ocean-view sauna.

One of them is a madman — accused of violently beating, threatening and sexually harassed at least two of his teammates.

Researchers took advantage of a rare chance to explore a new expanse of seafloor exposed by the breakup of an Antarctic ice ...

A pair of researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada, working with a colleague from the Scripps Institution of ...

A terrifying video of a woman trying to close a door amid a massive storm in Antarctica was shared on social media, which ...

A member of a South African research team at an isolated Antarctica base was put under psychological evaluation there after ...

Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed map yet" of Antarctica's landscape beneath its blanket of ice, a ...

A new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed.

In large part thanks to being in the right place at the right time, researchers discovered a thriving marine ecosystem ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers ...