Microplastics have entered Antarctica’s soil ecosystem, subtly affecting its only native insect and revealing how far human pollution now reaches. An international team of scientists led by ...

Scientists have discovered there is more to Antarctica than meets the eye. A new map of the landscape beneath the frozen ...

Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.

Experts from the University of Kentucky have found evidence of microplastics in the bodies of an insect in Antarctica. In the ...

Scientists believe the map could shed light on how Antarctica's vast ice sheet will respond to climate change.

Scientists have produced the most comprehensive map ever created of the terrain concealed beneath Antarctica's enormous ice ...

"Our IFPA map of Antarctica’s subglacial landscape reveals that an enormous level of detail about the subglacial topography of Antarctica can be inverted from satellite observations of the ice surface ...

The mission — known as Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations, or PUEO — lifted off Dec. 20, 2025, from NASA’s launch ...

The storing of the very first heritage cores in Antarctica marks a pivotal moment for the Ice Memory project launched in 2015 ...

A novel new technique has allowed scientists to see what's lurking miles beneath Antarctica's ice like never before.

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

PUEO is designed to study tiny particles called neutrinos that travel through space at extremely high energies. When these ...