Researchers working on data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory buried deep in Antarctic ice think they may have spotted tau neutrinos, a certain flavor of the subatomic particles from space.

China will set up a new observatory station in Antarctica at the region's highest peak within two years an official from the Polar Research Institute of China announced in Beijing reports the ...

Paid and presented by International Science Council. As witnesses to a changing climate over millennia, the Antarctic ice sheets are a unique record for studying past climate change informing ...

Argentina will install an observatory at the Belgrano II base in Antarctica, 1,300 kilometers from the South Pole, which will be operated from Buenos Aires. The automated telescope will be used to ...

A vital glacier in western Antarctica appears to be smoking in a rare view captured by a NASA satellite earlier this month. The so-called “sea smoke,” isn’t actually smoke, it’s fog ...

More than 40 percent of Antarctica’s ice shelves have dwindled in the past 25 years, potentially accelerating sea level rise by allowing more land ice to flow into the ocean, according to new ...

There is now less sea-ice surrounding the Antarctic continent than at any time since we began using satellites to measure it in the late 1970s. It is the southern hemisphere summer, when you'd ...

A team of scientists and engineers have landed in Antarctica to test a drone that will help experts forecast the impacts of climate change. The autonomous plane will map areas of the continent ...

In July, a 1 trillion–ton iceberg, roughly the size of Delaware, calved off of the Larsen C ice shelf in western Antarctica. The damage to the ice is being done not just from above, as the ...

Populations have declined by up to 50% in some places and one colony off the Antarctic Peninsula has disappeared completely. The biggest threat to them right now is climate change due to changes in ...

Antarctica's hostile environment is made worse with freezing cold winds of up to 200 mph (320 kph). The continent is a massive ice block, 98% of its mainland is covered in ice. That equates to an ...

inaugural pickleball game played by the crew on the ice and the first journalist from the 62nd AW sent to Antarctica in over 10 years. For Lt. Col. Matthew McNulty, 304th EAS outgoing commander ...