In 2022, an international team of scientists sent a 20-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named “Ran” to traverse ...

Indeed, the oldest directly dated ice ever retrieved from Earth has been pulled from the frozen expanse of East Antarctica, ...

The Southern Ocean absorbs nearly half of all ocean-stored human CO2, but its future role is uncertain. Despite models predicting a decline, researchers found that freshening surface waters are ...

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological mystery.

Each nest was notably "cleared of plankton detritus that covered the surrounded areas," creating a "vast, geometric fish ...

Far below the ice, the secrets of our planet's past hang on – and so do those of the aliens we may one day meet out near ...

Beneath miles of ice lies an ancient landscape untouched for 40 million years. If it ever thaws, what secrets—and ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest directly dated ice on Earth—an incredible six million years old—deep in the frozen expanse of East Antarctica. The ice, along with ancient air bubbles trapped ...

A team of U.S. researchers uncovered the world’s oldest directly dated ice and air trapped deep within the Allan Hills region ...

Climate models have long predicted that global warming would weaken the Southern Ocean's ability to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2). Yet decades of ...

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists have deployed artificial intelligence (AI) to cut seafloor image analysis from hours—or even years—to seconds, accelerating efforts to map Antarctica's ...