A team of researchers have found rare pink rocks that have emerged out of the ground in the iconic continent of Antarctica, ...

Which continent is known as the White Continent? Learn why Antarctica is called the White Continent, its location, features ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents—a great ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents—a great sheet of ice set in contrast ...

Even Antarctica’s toughest native insect can’t escape the reach of plastic pollution. Scientists have discovered that Belgica antarctica — a tiny, rice-sized midge and the southernmost insect on Earth ...

Winter in Antarctica is long and dark. Temperatures remain well below freezing. In many places, the sun sets in April and does not rise above the horizon again until August. Without sunlight, ...

“Welcome to Antarctica!” the expedition guide exclaimed as she helped me off the Zodiac. We’d already been to Antarctica for the past few days, seeing various islands off the mainland. We’d even had ...

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier stunned scientists by retreating eight kilometers in just two months, with nearly half of it collapsing in record time. The rapid breakup was driven by a flat, underwater ...

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the world conducting field research in Antarctica this season. The traditional ...

The polar region is the area around the North Pole and the South Pole. The Arctic in the north and Antarctica in the south. These are the Earth's coldest regions characterised by vast ice sheets.