Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.

Earth is home to some truly mind-boggling landscapes, from salt-covered deserts to giant, underwater waterfalls ... gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Scientists with the Australian Antarctic Division are testing Antarctica's waters for acidity, salinity, temperature, and oxygen content using underwater robots.

A helmet jellyfish drifts with tentacles splayed in the Bellingshausen Sea off Antarctica, an area in where the shelf break and slope are cut by several underwater gullies. (Caption and photo ...

The Southern Ocean, which circles the globe without being blocked by land, is home to the Antarctic Circumpolar ... Beneath the cliffs of Waterfall Bay is a vast network of underground caves ...

On January 13, 2025, iceberg A-84, which is roughly the size of Chicago, broke from the George VI Ice Shelf, a giant floating glacier attached to the Antarctic Peninsula ... allowing for these ...