In East Antarctica, just southeast of Japanese research outpost Showa Station, eagle-eyed users spotted a mysterious “doorway,” which has become the topic of wild theories online, with some ...

A vital glacier in western Antarctica appears to be smoking in a rare view captured by a NASA satellite earlier this month. The so-called “sea smoke,” isn’t actually smoke, it’s fog ...

The first color that comes to mind when thinking about Antarctica is a stark white, which makes sense, given the southernmost continent is generally buried in ice and snow. It has earned its ...

It was a bright, sunny afternoon during the recent summer season in Antarctica when the Seabourn Pursuit cruise ship rammed into a sheet of sea ice in Hanusse Bay. The ship plowed forward ...

Case in point: Thanks to a screenshot from Google Maps, people are beginning to build and spread a conspiracy theory surrounding a hidden "doorway" stuck in Antarctica's ice. The screenshot (above ...

A satellite orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth recently captured rare images of an atmospheric phenomenon that makes Antarctica glaciers appear to be smoking. The wisps of "sea smoke" blowing ...

Legendary Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance sank more than a century ago and its wreck lay undiscovered at the bottom of the Weddell Sea until March 2022. Now, the team behind ...

In fact, the research showed that vegetation cover across the Antarctic Peninsula has increased more than tenfold over the last four decades. “The landscape is still almost entirely dominated by ...

Even the world’s most successful wild animal isn’t safe from climate change. As Antarctic krill face unprecedented challenges in the Southern Ocean, a new project has been launched to better ...

A third humpback was hauled alive in late January on a Chilean-flagged vessel, the Antarctic Endeavor, using traditional trawling gear. After the ship’s crew struggled for 40 minutes to cut the ...

The Australian government has committed $188 million over four years to fund a new home port for the RSV Nuyina in Hobart. The Tasmanian government will be responsible for meeting the cost of any ...