"But Antarctica is not an apolitical human paradise with untouched nature—a sort of continent for scientific inquiry alone.

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

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

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

Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' ...

Far from staying away from the game, a five-month chess championship took place between Soviet explorers in Antarctica in ...

Iceberg A-84 broke off from Antarctica and revealed a thriving community of sea creatures underneath. Now, researchers are ...

A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice ...

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

South African officials say a member of a research team at an isolated Antarctica base has been put under psychological ...

It’s the kind of event that when it happens, you leave whatever you’re doing,” said Patricia Esquete, the expedition’s chief scientist.

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