Strip away Antarctica’s ice and the familiar white disc at the bottom of the map dissolves into something far stranger: a ...

Vicki Koterba is preparing for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Antarctica, heading south on a Smithsonian-sponsored educational ...

After nearly a century of exploring the continent, and sometimes being food, dogs were kicked out of Antarctica via an ...

Flat Earth theories have circulated for years, but a recent post adds another element to the theory – a claim that the world is surrounded by an ice wall. An Oct. 29 Instagram post includes a photo of ...

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

In a world of wild talk and fake news, help us stand up for the facts.

Maps of Antarctica date back to when Roman geographer and astronomer Ptolemy envisioned a land in the southern hemisphere to counterbalance that in the north to satisfy an ancient sense of proportion.

The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. At this very moment a vast world exists that ...