Chelsea Handler is enjoying a new romance. Over the years, the comedian has spoken about her high-profile relationships — including when she dated 50 Cent and Jo Koy — but she is now staying ...

On a map, Antarctica reads like the final frontier, a place where the rules of the natural world work a little differently. The idea that an entire continent covered in ice qualifies as a desert doesn ...

An article published recently in Nature Geoscience warns that Antarctica's ice masses have begun to experience a process scientists call "Greenlandification." The term refers to the unprecedented ...

A new study shows Antarctica’s biggest ice losses are happening at a few weak coastal gateways where glaciers are retreating inland.

Three decades of satellite observations reveal how warming ocean water is pushing some Antarctic glaciers further inland.

Scientists have drawn up the most accurate map of Antarctica, offering background to the continent’s response to climate change.

Antarctica is one of the most extreme and isolated places on Earth. Nearly the entire continent is buried beneath a massive ice sheet, locking away huge amounts of the planet’s fresh water. Because of ...

From ice swimming to desert crossings, these explorers are redefining what modern adventure – and modern adventurers – look like.

Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where gravity is slightly weaker than expected. Scientists have traced this “gravity ...

Now, far from the icy seas of Antarctica, what’s left of A23a is being eaten away by warmer waters. It’s in its death throes, ...

Newly-declassified government documents from more than thirty years ago reveal how officials concealed a potential UFO encounter at the South Pole.

Manuel Berrocoso, a scientist at the University of Cádiz and one of Spain’s leading experts in Antarctic geodynamics, has just returned from another research campaign in the South Shetland Islands, ...