On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples ...

Microplastics have entered Antarctica’s soil ecosystem, subtly affecting its only native insect and revealing how far human pollution now reaches. An international team of scientists led by ...

Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet blanketing Antarctica, ...

What's under the ice? For the first time, scientists have been able to map the mountains and valleys under the ice of ...

Richard Parks, a world record setting explorer, reveals the gadgets behind the first episode of National Geographic’s Pole to ...

The storing of the very first heritage cores in Antarctica marks a pivotal moment for the Ice Memory project launched in 2015 ...

Bad weather has postponed attempts to set up camp on the Thwaites Glacier. So researchers got onto the sea ice and met a ...

In a landmark study published in Science, researchers have unveiled a high-resolution map of the Antarctic bed. This study ...

Scientists in Antarctica on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history ...

An ice core is something of a time capsule, containing the history of the Earth’s past atmosphere in a frozen climate archive ...

Scientists reached Antarctic bedrock after drilling 1.7 miles through more than a million years of ice deposits on the white continent, they announced Jan. 9.