Investigative journalist Ross Coulthart said he’s keeping an open mind.

Thirty million years separate the freezing of Antarctica from the glaciation of the Arctic, and for decades that gap made ...

Researchers have identified a single, continent-scale tectonic structure hidden beneath East Antarctica’s ice sheet, ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 metres, were it to fully melt. Yet it has puzzled scientists for decades how and why this ...

People have died or gone mad on the icy continent, but artists, scientists and filmmakers keep going back. A new exhibition ...

The discovery, published in Nature Geoscience, reveals one of the largest deep-Earth structures ever mapped on the continent.

Learn how slow-moving mantle waves inside Earth may have lifted Antarctica’s ancient mountains, creating cold highlands where ...

Some 34 million years ago, when Earth was significantly warmer than it is today, Antarctica froze over. It would take another ...

It was five years ago this month that ESA’s GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding buried treasure – giving a new view of the remnants of lost ...

It's just a question of whether we're fast enough to stretch out that loss to several thousand years versus dumb enough to ...

My husband and I just marked a significant milestone by visiting our seventh continent together: Antarctica. During the past 20 years, our mutual love for exploration has taken us to every corner of ...

Scientists from a handful of universities across the country have made innovative use of satellite images from NASA to ...