Antarctica is the fifth largest continent in the world, and it’s nearly completely covered by ice. Due to global warming, ice is melting rapidly in parts of the continent, according to a 2023 study.

In Antarctica, beneath the ice, there is liquid water—and potentially a lot of it. That’s the takeaway from new research that ...

Rising land beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet could slow ice loss and reduce sea-level rise in coming centuries. However, if emissions continue to rise, the effect could raise sea levels even more than ...

Ask anyone to name an Antarctic land animal, and chances are the response will be, "penguin." Try again, says David Barnes, a scientist with the British Antarctic Survey. "Penguins aren't really ...

Exactly 22 hours after leaving Ushuaia, Argentina, which calls itself "the end of the world," the expedition ship Fram reached the Southern Ocean, which circles Antarctica. The real end of the world.

The Wilkes Land crater is a hole in the bedrock beneath East Antarctica's ice sheet measuring 315 miles (510 kilometers) across. Researchers have been trying to explain its existence since the 1960s, ...

Antarctica might not be the first place to look for a mountaineering adventure. Only a handful have tried to climb the isolated and frozen granite walls at the bottom of the world. Only on "CBS This ...

I work at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. It's a coastal town located in Winter Quarters Bay on Ross Island. Positioned deep in McMurdo Sound (part of the Ross Sea), McMurdo provides the southernmost ...

KING GEORGE ISLAND, Antarctica — More than 30 years before the moratorium on mining in Antarctica is set to expire, countries are quietly positioning themselves for a potential land grab. The 1961 ...

Ask anyone to name an Antarctic land animal, and chances are the response will be, "penguin." Try again, says David Barnes, a scientist with the British Antarctic Survey. "Penguins aren't really ...