Antarctica’s only native insect could provide inspiration for how humans could travel into deep space. The tiny midge called ...

Antarctica’s only native insect, called Belgica antarctica, has adapted to survive in extreme cold temperatures, which could ...

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

Antarctica has a wild ... and evokes what life is like for those living and stationed down on the White Continent. Written in first person and full of anecdotes, this book is a nice, modern ...

I n the McMurdo Sound region of Antarctica, there lives a species of sponge known as the giant volcano sponge ( Anoxycalyx ...

Extreme precipitation events in Antarctica, which are mostly dominated by snowfall due to sub-zero temperatures, also include rainfall, according to new research.

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be ... a physical oceanographer at Sorbonne University in France, told Live Science in an email. The melting of a massive ice shelf like FRIS would ...

These tiny creatures may be no bigger than your little finger, but scientists plan to start counting them from space. Knowing ...