Winter in Antarctica is long and dark. Temperatures remain well below freezing. In many places, the sun sets in April and does not rise above the horizon again until August. Without sunlight, ...

Bacteria living in the barren, ice-free soils of Antarctica have found a way to endure months of freezing darkness without ...

Antarctica, the planet's largest repository of meteorites, is beginning to hide them under the ice due to global warming.

An article published recently in Nature Geoscience warns that Antarctica's ice masses have begun to experience a process scientists call "Greenlandification." The term refers to the unprecedented ...

Astrobiologist Dale Andersen headed back in Antarctica at Lake Untersee in January-February 2026 for another field season of ...