some 75 miles north of the Antarctic Peninsula. The discovery near the largest of the South Shetland Islands is a omen of a potential invasion of the continent, the researchers suggest ...

Antarctica is a place rife with opportunities for discovery, but strangely enough, the discovery of the continent itself is something of a contested topic.

The massive A23a iceberg, covering around 3,500 square kilometers (1,350 square miles), broke off from the Antarctic shelf in 1986 and remains the world's largest and oldest iceberg. After ...

Raul Cordero from Chile's University of Santiago, who is also part of the National Antarctic Research Committee, said he was confident the iceberg would sidestep South Georgia. "The island acts as ...

the South Shetland and South Orkney Islands, the North Antarctic Peninsular and at Pebble Island, in the Falkland Islands, where the ship will spend New Year, and hold a traditional football match ...

Aside from the obvious problems of melting Antarctic ice, this problem of hidden volcanoes becoming active could spell ...

The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...

Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking mainly due to frequent small calving events, while major iceberg break-offs remain rare ...

Scientists have mapped Antarctica’s ice-free ecosystems, highlighting their biodiversity and growing climate threats.

An online sleuth has posted images of what looks like a gigantic alien face rising out of the snow at the South Pole. The Antarctic alien was spotted by a social media user who saw the image while ...

A British rocket will be launching from UK soil this year for the first time, with the hopes of reaching space. The project will be able to attempt take-off following a £20million cash boost from ...