A five-month-long slumber party. A college dorm. An introvert’s hell. Those are just some of the words residents of Antarctica use to describe life in the world’s coldest, most mysterious continent.

A robot found over 1,000 organized fish nests under Antarctic ice, revealing geometric breeding patterns and new clues about ...

Have you ever wondered how some life forms keep going in places so cold we’d call them frozen? Places humans wouldn't dare ...

The findings of the 2019 expedition were published Wednesday in the journal Frontiers after the research vessel’s remotely ...

The annual meeting of the international body responsible for conservation of the marine ecosystems in the Southern Ocean ...

A study of 26 individuals who stayed at the Rothera Research Station in Antarctica for six months in 2018 reveals that living on the frozen continent can change people’s accents. Not all 26 were ...

The search for a famed polar exploration shipwreck led researchers to discover geometric patterns created by fish on the Antarctic seafloor.

Step out of a helicopter onto a never-before-seen island in Antarctica’s distant south during this expert-led tour around ...

It can be tricky to see sponges as animals, stationary and plant-like as they are, but they represent some of the ...

Indonesia, acting on a request from Interpol, has seized a fishing boat carrying 600 illegal gillnets that can stretch up to 30 km (18 miles) after it evaded capture in several countries, the ...