A study in Nature Geoscience reveals that changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) closely tracked marine algae growth ...

Scientists studying ancient ocean sediments discovered a surprising link between the shrinking of West Antarctica’s ice and the Southern Ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide.

Meltwater is scrambling chemical signals in mountain glaciers, pushing scientists to store fragile ice cores in Antarctica.

An expedition to Antarctica has brought scientists and researchers to the widest glacier on Earth. The Thwaites Glacier is ...

Baby stars, teenage planets, and disappearing icebergs are all featured this week. Plus, a look back at a New Horizons image of Jupiter and Io, and a strange, elongated cloud on Mars.

Scientists are using radar to study damaged ice both in Antarctica and, with the help of a NASA spacecraft, on Jupiter’s ...

In the unforgiving polar wilderness, scientists go to great lengths to safeguard the devices that gather precious data.

The world's largest iceberg has run aground and may soon start breaking up, scientists at the British Antarctic Survey said. A23a, as the iceberg is known, appears to have come to a standstill near ...

A massive iceberg has triggered a catastrophic die-off of Emperor Penguin chicks in Antarctica, blocking thousands of parents from reaching their young. The event claimed the lives of approximately 14 ...

China's Fengyun-3D satellite has found that A23a, once the world's largest iceberg, has entered the final stage of its disintegration. True-color images with 250-meter resolution captured on January ...

The newly released Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite image was captured over the South Atlantic Ocean in December.

Iceberg A23a could die any time now, as the latest photos from NASA show it covered with a blue mush that forms from meltwater. Once the world's largest iceberg, it has been moving for 40 years after ...