The remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East Antarctica have been discovered—and ...

East Antarctica is the largest ice sheet on Earth. Alone, it holds enough frozen water to raise global sea levels by a ...

A total collapse of the roughly 80-mile-wide Thwaites Glacier, the widest in the world, would trigger changes that could lead ...

NASA image of blue meltwater pools on the Amery Ice Sheet in Antarctica on January 1. These pools may weaken the ice shelf if the water leaks through fissures into the ice.

Melting glaciers may be setting off volcanoes worldwide, triggering eruptions and possibly accelerating climate change.

Scientists at the Australian Antarctic Partnership Program are just beginning to understand the dire effects of extremely low ...

If snowy landscapes and penguins casually waddling past you are what dreams are made of, then Antarctica's icy wilderness ...

Turquoise blue ponds are emerging along the Antarctic’s third-largest ice shelf, photos from NASA show.

Bizarre blue streaks dotted across an ice shelf in Antarctica have been spotted by NASA. These images, snapped by the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on January 1, show pools of pale blue meltwater ...