The Shirase began transferring fuel, observation equipment and other supplies to the research base on Saturday night.

The Thwaites Glacier, or the Doomsday Glacier, is showing more signs of damage and is inching closer to its end. New studies ...

A robotic ocean float was lost under the Antarctic ice for eight months, but it miraculously reappeared, bearing some ...

Far below the frozen surfaces of Antarctica and Greenland, scientists are uncovering a restless world of gas, water, rock and ...

In the past, when West Antarctica melted, there was a rapid uptick in onshore geological activity in the area.

The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they ...

How much time does the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica have left? Our reporter Raymond Zhong and our photographer Chang W. Lee ...

New research shows that warm ocean currents triggered a rapid collapse of part of East Antarctica’s ice sheet 9,000 years ago, offering clues about future sea level rise.

Dartmouth oceanographer Yoshihiro Nakayama created a high-resolution model to study the melting of two glaciers in western ...

Travel to the end of the earth — as Ushuaia, Argentina, is called. Then travel beyond it, to the islands, coves and research stations of Antarctica, a remote and mysterious land experienced by only a ...

An autonomous submarine named Ran discovers strange structures under the Dotson Ice Shelf in Antarctica, before mysteriously disappearing.

Nature likes to show off, and it has a way of sculpting ice into jaw-dropping masterpieces. These glaciers look like ...