Part of Pine Island Glacier collapsed several years ago, forming an unstable inlet where no ship had sailed. Until now.

Far beneath the creaking surface of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, scientists have uncovered a granite body roughly 60 miles ...

In the unforgiving polar wilderness, scientists go to great lengths to safeguard the devices that gather precious data.

Deep beneath Antarctica’s thick ice, powerful whirlpools of water, called submesoscale eddies are speeding up the melting of the Thwaites Glacier. These spinning water masses, usually no more than six ...

Ancient granite boulders reveal a vast hidden structure beneath Pine Island Glacier, reshaping understanding of Antarctic ice flow. Pink granite boulders scattered across the dark volcanic peaks of th ...

A satellite orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth recently captured rare images of an atmospheric phenomenon that makes Antarctica glaciers appear to be smoking. The wisps of "sea smoke" blowing ...

In a rare satellite capture, the U.S. Geological Survey's Landsat 8 satellite, which was co-developed with NASA, has documented an extraordinary atmospheric phenomenon above Antarctica's Pine Island ...