An unexpected and previously unknown topography beneath Antarctica's floating ice shelves has come to light, courtesy of a ...

When scientists peered beneath one of Antarctica's floating ice shelves, they were surprised to find an upside-down landscape ...

Which are the most incredible discoveries in Antarctica? This isolated continent is rarely visited, but still holds a lot of ...

Warming ocean waters are melting Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf at accelerating rates, highlighting a climate-driven trend with implications for global sea levels and climate modeling. New research ...

A 1550 square km (963 sq mi.) iceberg, designated A81 broke off Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf. A time-lapse of the 'calving ...

Hoping to collect data on the Southern Ocean’s Ross Sea, scientists deployed Marlin, an autonomous underwater vehicle, two ...

Satellite imagery captures flipped icebergs in stunning blues and greens, along with a penguin colony's surprising signature.

Antarctica's ice shelves are melting more rapidly than previously known because of climate change, according to a new US Geological Survey report prepared in close collaboration with the British ...

A massive Antarctic ice shelf is breaking up and pieces are expected to float away as icebergs over the course of the next few weeks. Scientists estimate the Wilkins Ice Shelf, which was ...