The presence of a rocky formation previously unknown to nautical cartography has been confirmed by the scientific team aboard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Check out these fun facts about Antarctica for kids. Pictured: a large group of Emperor penguins in Antarctica. Antarctica is the ...

A large number of scientific discoveries emerged from Earth's most southerly continent this year. Here are some of our favorites. A pair of new studies has revealed 'highly unlikely' phytoplankton ...

Antarctica is about the size of the United States and Mexico combined, yet no one owns it. But that doesn’t mean it’s free for the taking. The 1959 Antarctic Treaty forbids claiming land there, but 7 ...

The New York Times went on an expedition to study Antarctica’s fastest-thinning glaciers. CreditCredit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times For much of January and February, Raymond Zhong, a New York ...

The international traveling sensation Flat Stanley can get no flatter than a bunch of electrons, but at Glen Kinoshita’s South Pole Web site, Stanley may be at his coolest. Flat Stanley is a ...

Bright pink boulders scattered across the peaks of West Antarctica’s Hudson Mountains have led scientists to identify a massive granite body buried deep beneath the ice. What first appeared as a ...

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

Chapter: Tectonics of the West Antarctic Rift System: New Light on the History and Dynamics of Distributed Intracontinental Extension--C. S. Siddoway Unfortunately, this book can't be printed from the ...

Scientists are hoping to better understand how the warming ocean is affecting the Weddell seals' diving and foraging behaviour.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on Aug. 25, 1928, announcing the start of Admiral Richard Byrd's expedition to Antarctica.