Conspiracy theorists have been turning their attention to Antarctica more than you’d expect over recent years. First, there ...

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

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

Beneath Antarctica's vast ice sheets lies an estimated 511 billion barrels of oil and gas—a discovery that has transformed ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) — Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” scientists have found, raising fears that ...

Weathered rocks sitting above the ice hold iron concentrations up to ten times higher than earlier reports from elsewhere in ...

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A massive newly discovered lake may lie below the surface of Antarctica’s ice sheet, according to researchers. “We’ve seen these strange, linear channels on the surface, and are inferring these are ...

It's an interesting thought experiment to brainstorm what could be trapped under the thick, centuries old ice in Antarctica. Aliens? A virus? Some strange, undiscovered creatures? Scientists have ...