Mites are common in the Antarctic – there are hundreds of species. Some even live in the nasal cavities of penguins. Penguin ...

Funding for the National Science Foundation, which finances research at US bases on the icy continent, has already been ...

Jacob Cooper spent a month on a small boat studying penguins off the coast of Antarctica. He shivered. He got seasick. It was ...

It's common knowledge that Earth's southernmost continent, Antarctica, has exceptionally cold temperatures. However, you might not know the scope of the continent's frigidity. Antarctica is one of ...

CAIRO (AP) — A recreational submarine taking 45 tourists on an underwater cruise of coral reefs in the Red Sea sank off the Egyptian resort town of Hurghada on Thursday, leaving six Russians ...

A giant phantom jelly is documented in the Bellingshausen Sea off Antarctica, at an area where the shelf break and slope are cut by several underwater gullies. This jellyfish can grow to a massive ...

A team of international scientists led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has assembled the most detailed landscape map beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet. The map, called Bedmap3, uses more than 60 ...

Antarctica was once a lush and thriving land, teeming with prehistoric life. It's hard to believe now, but tucked away, hidden underneath a layer of ice kilometers thick, that ancient landscape still ...