The Blood Falls is the result of a complicated interaction in which overlying ice, underlying rock, and an ancient lake bed ...

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Researchers solved the mystery thanks to measuring devices that captured the event entirely by chance, providing the first ...

A peer-reviewed study published in the International Journal of Circumpolar Health has been cited for documenting what its author described as the oldest known human remains on Antarctic soil. The ...

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, ...

Turkish scientists say research shows risks in Antarctic region from diseases carried by migratory birds to plastic waste ...

In 1911, a geologist on the ultimately doomed Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole discovered a five-story-tall, blood-red ...

The phenomenon isn't a new one, but scientists have only recently come up with a convincing explanation for why it happens.

Deep beneath Antarctica’s ice, scientists have uncovered a geological archive that could reshape predictions of future sea-level rise.

The “gravity hole” formed at least 70 million years ago after convection in Earth’s mantle. The weak gravity could impact our ...

Scientists have discovered a rare red-coloured bacterium in an Antarctic lake that can survive extreme cold and intense UV radiation. The microbe could have important applications in biotechnology, ...

Antarctica, not the Sahara, is the world’s largest desert. Defined by extreme dryness rather than heat, this frozen continent stretches across 14 million square kilometres of ice.