In 2010, marine biologists hit the jackpot. While exploring the frigid depths of the ocean around Antarctica, they stumbled ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature has officially declared the emperor penguin endangered. The species' ...

An autonomous submarine named Ran discovers strange structures under the Dotson Ice Shelf in Antarctica, before mysteriously ...

In 1902, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott spotted a large group of large black and white birds at Ross Island, Antarctica ...

Over the past three decades, Antarctica’s ice sheet has lost its grip on roughly 12,820 square kilometers of seafloor, an ...

With their numbers rapidly declining, scientists say emperor penguin extinction risk is growing and by the end of the century ...

A new Stanford University study has helped solve a mystery about dramatic swings in sea ice extent around Antarctica.

What appeared to be a ‘dirty iceberg' turned out to be an uncharted island, discovered during a Polarstern expedition in one ...

Antarctic sea ice decline in 2015 was caused by weakening ocean stratification and strong storms that mixed warm deep water ...

Scientists discovered an uncharted Antarctic island in the Weddell Sea during an expedition, prompting updates to global maps ...

MIAMI (AP) — A ship operated by a group founded by anti-whaling activist Paul Watson collided with a Norwegian krill trawler off Antarctica in what the ship’s owner likened to a “terrorist attack” ...