Penguin poop is stinky but useful. In Antarctica, the birds’ nutrient-rich guano allows mosses and other organisms to ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released the most detailed map yet of what Antarctica looks like when you strip away ...

Researchers did not expect the huge size of the meteorite given the frigid continent's history of thousands of space rocks ...

“If you look on nautical charts, it calls this island Bombay Island after this boat,” Lockton said of the remains of an old ...

It is hoped that advanced analysis of this segment could help test previous theories about the behaviour of refrozen ice under the Antarctic ice sheet and reveal East Antarctica’s glaciation ...

The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international ...

New ancient DNA research on Adélie penguin poo in Antarctica shows how several species respond to environmental change over ...

Andrew McAfee (Carnegie Museum of Natural History), 2025 Antarctica during the Late Cretaceous, around 69 million years ago, was not the frozen continent it is now. With an average temperature of ...

Polar scientist Felicity Ashton reflects on her fascination with exploration and shares lessons on survival, risk, and ...

A newly studied Vegavis iaai skull from Antarctica confirms that modern bird lineages, like ducks and geese, were evolving ...

Not only is Deception Island littered with lore and history, it's also one of the ... row alone through the roughest seas on the planet to Antarctica. Very little went according to plan.

Polar scientist Felicity Aston reflects on her fascination with exploration and shares lessons on survival, risk, and ...