A deep rift in western Antarctica will soon split through an ice shelf, breaking off an iceberg roughly the size of Prince Edward Island By Jake Edmiston Published Jan 06, 2017 1 minute read ...

In West Antarctica, more than 20 per cent of coastal glaciers were retreating faster than 25 meters per year. The situation isn’t as bad in East Antarctica, although the area’s largest glacier ...

A vital glacier in western Antarctica appears to be smoking in a rare view captured by a NASA satellite earlier this month. The so-called “sea smoke,” isn’t actually smoke, it’s fog – and appears as ...

The Antarctic continent is a frozen landscape of snow and sleet, but a new map from NASA exposes what the region would look like if all the ice were to disappear.

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.

The Antarctic ice sheet, which covers 98% of the continent, averages around 1.2 miles in thickness, with its thickest point reaching nearly 3 miles, the Australian Antarctic Program reports.

A vital glacier in western Antarctica appears to be smoking in a rare view captured by a NASA satellite earlier this month. The so-called “sea smoke,” isn’t actually smoke, it’s fog ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a nearly 1,000-mile-long river system that flowed beneath Antarctica around 40 million years ago, Live Science reported.

Video released by NASA shows a total solar eclipse as seen from Western Antarctica on Saturday. The Earth's southernmost continent experiences continual daylight from mid-October until early April ...

A vital glacier in western Antarctica appears to be smoking in a rare view captured by a NASA satellite earlier this month. The so-called “sea smoke,” isn’t actually smoke, it’s fog ...