A strange object resembling a massive ship has been spotted on Google Earth in Antarctica, sending conspiracy theories into ...

Beneath kilometers of ice in East Antarctica, a team of geoscientists led by geophysicist Stewart Jamieson of Durham ...

Temperature records from measurements of oxygen isotopes in the ice reveal that this area experienced a gradual, long-term ...

In a groundbreaking find, scientists have unearthed the oldest recorded air, trapped within Antarctic ice for an astonishing ...

The extracted ice block is six million years old, towards the end of the Miocene epoch, and can help to understand the planet ...

This week, scientists are intrigued by the discovery of a nearly white penguin that was discovered in Chilean Antarctica. The penguin, which is a female, is part of a colony of Gentoo penguins — who ...

The indentations are nests of fish called yellowfin notie, and they are not randomly scattered—rather, they appear to have been arranged in distinct patterns ...

An enormous subglacial trough, deeper than the Grand Canyon, has been discovered in Antarctica. The project involved a large team of U.K. scientists and researchers working the Ellsowrth Subglacial ...

A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of East Antarctica. The 6-million-year-old ice and the tiny air bubbles trapped ...

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