Beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf lies one of the least measured oceans on Earth—a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the ...

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) rescued a luxury cruise ship that was trapped in a thick sheet of ice near Antarctica. The USCG ...

Louis Etienne and his crew of eight scientists this week began an expedition to the remote waters of Antarctica, where they ...

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...

Far beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists are mapping a landscape that looks less like a frozen desert and more like an ...

A research trip to Antarctica uncovered marine life that hadn't been seen before in one of the world's most remote spots.

This undated image shows chunks of ice in the North Cove in Antarctica. (Michael Shortt/British Antarctic Survey via AP) (CN) — A saltier, warmer ocean likely sounds inviting — unless you’re a penguin ...

Massive reductions in Antarctic sea ice in recent years has been correlated with more stormy days in the Southern Ocean, and could have implications for vital ocean currents. When you purchase through ...

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015, the frozen continent has lost sea ice similar to the size of Greenland.

A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way ...