Many of us perceive Antarctica as a distant and mysterious corner of the world. The coldest and most wind-swept region on ...

A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice ...

An inside look at the HX Nansen, including its science program, zodiac excursions, and amenities, like its ocean-view sauna.

At the heart of the discussion on Antarctic governance is a critical question: how do we design a system that adapts in real-time to emerging crises, rather than one that is reactive and must ...

Recent allegations of violence at the SANAE IV Antarctic research base highlight the urgent need to improve safety in remote ...

One of them is a madman — accused of violently beating, threatening and sexually harassed at least two of his teammates.

A new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed.

On a January morning in 2025, an iceberg the size of Chicago broke free from the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica. It ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

A media storm blew up in mid-March 2025 when a researcher at South Africa's isolated Sanae IV base in Antarctica accused one ...

Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed map yet" of Antarctica's landscape beneath its blanket of ice, a ...

There are about 10,000 scientists stationed in Antarctica during the summer but, in the harsh winter, that number drops to ...