Scientists exploring beneath Antarctica’s ice uncovered thousands of fish nests arranged in striking geometric patterns.

The search for a long-lost Antarctic ship has unexpectedly opened a window into a hidden ecosystem, revealing a dense ...

A giant phantom jelly is documented in the Bellingshausen Sea off Antarctica, at an area where the shelf break and slope are cut by several underwater gullies. This jellyfish can grow to a massive ...

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures rose and the early Holocene began, during which time ...

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that ...

Georgia Tech researchers have developed a mathematical formula to predict the size of lakes that form on melting ice sheets—discovering their depth and span are linked to the topography of the ice ...

The strongest ocean current on Earth circles Antarctica. It’s the primary way water moves between the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, and helps regulate the global climate. But a new study ...

Earlier this year, a gigantic iceberg fell from the Antarctic ice sheet. When the approximately 19-mile long chunk of ice (roughly the size of Chicago) broke off on Jan. 13, it revealed an area of ...