Researchers measuring the salinity of the Southern Ocean did find unexpected results, but some online reports got the details ...

At the bottom of the world lies a region as magnificent as it is misunderstood: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Harsh, ...

She also aims to enhance the precision of very high-resolution satellite imagery for monitoring Adélie penguin colonies in ...

A team of scientists analyzed 23 snow samples and found chemical substances commonly used in our daily routines. The mystery: how did they get there?

The frigid waters that surround Antarctica may be inhospitable to human inhabitance, but they are churning with the manmade ...

Learn about the new technique being used to study cracks that have formed on Antarctica's unstable Doomsday Glacier.

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

Antarctica has hidden beneath its great mantle of ice and snow an impressive geological feature among many other things. This ...

Researchers found ancient river-carved plains beneath East Antarctica that may help slow ice loss and improve sea-level rise ...

A recent study using brain scans of crew members at an Antarctic research station reveals significant changes in brain ...

Current climate models have so far been unable to adequately reproduce the clouds over the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.