The Antarctic 'alien' was spotted by a social media user looking at satellite imagery of the area, with some speculating it ...

"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why penguins have waddled into our hearts ...

Researchers have generated the first dataset of water flow beneath the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, which will lead to more accurate projections of sea level rise. The team modeled Antarctica's ...

Locate Antarctica on globes, digital maps and atlases and find the South Pole. Do a virtual visit using Google Earth and research images of the Geographical South Pole. Create a table- top map of ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...