NASA's SWOT satellite revealed unseen ocean depths, mapping seafloor features that shape life, currents, and tectonics. From ...

A new study investigates how much of the phytoplankton in the Palmer Deep submarine canyon is homemade and how much is ...

STRANGE radio pulses detected roughly 25 miles (40km) above Antarctica could be the mark of a new cosmic particle, according to a new study. This rare signal was first detected by the Antarctic ...

The ANITA experiment has found anomalous radio signals above Antarctica, prompting new investigations into mysterious ...

Far from being an optical illusion or a trick of the light, blue ice, with its deep and almost hypnotic hue, results from ...

Here’s another fun fact about emperor penguins. The males incubate a single egg atop their feet under a brood patch. The male also fasts during incubation, losing up to 45% of his body weight. Park ...

Antarctica hides much more than an icy expanse. Beneath miles (kilometers) of ice, a 500-million-year-old mountain range is ...

Scientists made a shocking discovery beneath a slowly retreating glacier in Antarctica: a bustling network of microbial life.

TV icon William Shatner of Star Trek fame, and noted astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson will take the stage at McCaw Hall in Seattle this week for a night of conversation.

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

The mystery radio pulses were picked up about 25 miles (40 kilometers) above Earth by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient ...

The wind, having tumbled down 4,000 feet of elevation from the domed summit of the ice sheet hundreds of miles to the west, ...