The ocean surrounding Antarctica is one of the most austere habitats on Earth. But, amidst the frozen, windswept landscape, an incredible diversity of life thrives. Each spring, phytoplankton harness ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antarctica's vast ice sheet conceals a world of mysteries, from ancient river-carved landscapes to unexplained radio pulses. Cover ...

A new generation of ice-penetrating maps has turned the blank white of Antarctica into a richly contoured world of mountains, valleys, rivers and lakes. For the first time, scientists can trace this ...

Picture sea ice in your mind. You probably imagine brilliant white, snow-covered floes floating on the surface of the ocean, home to penguins in the south of the globe or polar bears in the north. But ...

Scientists have long known more about the surfaces of some other worlds than what lies beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet, which is up to three miles thick. A new approach to mapping could help change ...

Every time a glacier collapses in Antarctica, does a penguin get its wings? Bad jokes aside, Antarctica, the large ice continent on the underside of the earth, is home to many penguins and many ...