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

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

Far below the frozen surfaces of Antarctica and Greenland, scientists are uncovering a restless world of gas, water, rock and ...

Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming changes. Sea ice is ...

After 10 days with only the open ocean and the occasional iceberg at our sides, sailing into the sea ice felt like crossing ...

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet covers some 760,000 square miles and is up to 1.2 miles thick. If it were to ever melt away entirely, it would add 10 feet to global sea levels. Even considering how ...

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet covers some 760,000 square miles and is up to 1.2 miles thick. If it were to ever melt away entirely, it would add 10 feet to global sea levels. Even considering how ...

A tiny robot explorer traversed the vast, frigid waters of Antarctica—even diving under the ice at one point. After miraculously surviving all that, the robot brought back souvenirs for scientists. In ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles. But ...