The Antarctic Ocean’s brutal conditions ultimately doomed Ernest Shackleton’s famed 1915 expedition aboard the Endurance.

A pyramid-shaped mountain peak in the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica has captured global attention, appearing as a ...

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...

The search for a famed polar exploration shipwreck led researchers to discover geometric patterns created by fish on the Antarctic seafloor.

A Finnish professor's recent research shows Sir Ernest Shackleton's legendary ship Endurance was poorly designed for Antarctic conditions, despite its indestructible reputation.

Scientists have uncovered human remains beneath the Antarctic ice, a discovery that has the potential to reshape our ...

During this journey, the glacier has been scratching up boulders and depositing them high in the Hudson Mountains, most ...

Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains. Some peaks, like the towering Transantarctic Mountains ...

The depths beneath Antarctica's glacial formations have long remained one of Earth's most impenetrable frontiers. Recent ...

The ice sample, retrieved in Antarctica, is the oldest on record—but this discovery may just be tip of the iceberg.

In the far reaches of Antarctica, a discovery on Seymour Island has jolted paleontology: a giant, soft-shelled egg from the ...