Ice cores that record 1.2 million years of Earth’s atmosphere are on their way to Europe to be analysed, and an Australian ...

The Antarctic ice sheet behaves like a non-Newtonian fluid and may be more nonlinear than previously thought. This impacts ...

Earth's oceans could one day turn purple. Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a ...

Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.

Glaciers carry unique organic carbon fingerprints that reflect geography and pollution, influencing ecosystems downstream.

Deep beneath the ice of East Antarctica’s Wilkes Land, scientists have identified a vast gravitational anomaly that could ...

The Bedmap3 from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the most detailed depiction ever captured of the southernmost ...

The Museum of Texas Tech houses fossils from the Triassic, Ice Age. Here's a behind the scenes look into the paleontology collection.

Mites are common in the Antarctic – there are hundreds of species. Some even live in the nasal cavities of penguins. Penguin ...

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...