And so, the Argo float’s trip under the ice turned out to be an incredibly lucky accident. During an eight-month period, the ...

Odd radio waves emanating from the ice don’t fit our model of particle behavior. Could they be a sign of dark matter?

The largest single-day size for the 2025 hole occurred on September 9, when it expanded to 8.83 million square miles (22.86 ...

A robotic float has measured the temperature and salinity from parts of the ocean never sampled before—underneath massive ...

While researching a separate topic, Naomi Ochwat noticed that a glacier in Antarctica had shrunk by 50%. What she learned was ...

A satellite called Sentinel-1D lifted off on November 4, 2025, riding an Ariane 6 rocket from French Guiana. Within two days ...

When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

While Antarctic meltwater drives rising sea levels, models show it also delays greenhouse gas-induced warming. That’s because ...

Allegra Rumbough and Marissa Macrae got engaged in an 'extraordinary' proposal in Antarctica. 'I couldn’t imagine a more ...

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier collapsed at record speed, revealing how quickly ice loss could drive sea level rise. A glacier on the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula has undergone the fastest ...