Generations of Times journalists have journeyed there with scientists. Their coverage traces humankind’s changing ...

Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet blanketing Antarctica, ...

Scientists believe the map could shed light on how Antarctica's vast ice sheet will respond to climate change.

On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples ...

Richard Parks, a world record setting explorer, reveals the gadgets behind the first episode of National Geographic’s Pole to ...

Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.

A novel new technique has allowed scientists to see what's lurking miles beneath Antarctica's ice like never before.

European scientists opened the Ice Memory Sanctuary in Antarctica, preserving glacier ice cores to study past climate, track ...

NASA completed its Antarctic balloon campaign using high-altitude balloons to study cosmic rays, anti-matter and high-energy ...

Microplastics have entered Antarctica’s soil ecosystem, subtly affecting its only native insect and revealing how far human pollution now reaches. An international team of scientists led by ...

The Ice Memory Foundation, a consortium of European research institutes, inaugurated the frozen sanctuary on Wednesday at the ...

Antarctica might seem like one of the few untouched places left on Earth. However, tourism is growing rapidly, and its impact ...