Earth Is Zipping Through a Giant Interstellar Cloud. Here’s How We Know
Roughly within the last 20 million years, some stars in our neighborhood exploded in fiery supernovas, ejecting massive…
Korean researcher flown out of Antarctica after knife incident at Jang Bogo Station
An Antarctic expeditioner who allegedly threatened colleagues with a large, makeshift knife has been removed from a Korean…
Unusually Warm Water Detected Creeping Toward Antarctica – and Scientists Are Alarmed
A new long-term analysis of ocean data suggests that deep, warm waters in the Southern Ocean are shifting…
Deep Below Antarctica, Mysterious Radio Signals From the Icy Depths Point to Evidence of a Rare Phenomenon
Scientists have finally obtained evidence of a rare cosmic phenomenon first predicted decades ago using a novel detector…
Why is Antarctica’s mass increasing?
Applications 23/04/2026 1940 views 32 likes The Antarctic Ice Sheet has been growing since 2020 – and scientists…
Royal New Zealand Air Force completes medical evacuation from Antarctica
“At this time of the year there are very narrow windows of favourable weather conditions, so the crew…
Defence Force carries out ‘high-stakes’ Antarctic medical evacuation
The New Zealand Defence Force has carried out a “high-stakes” medical evacuation from Antarctica’s McMurdo Station. In a…
Nat Geo Explorer Cristian Lagger is exploring some of Earth’s coldest places
Reporting in this article is presented by the National Geographic Society in partnership with Rolex under the National…
Drowned chicks and food scarcity: Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered
The emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal have been reclassified as ‘Endangered’ on the International Union for Conservation…
Photographer Captures First-Ever Images of Adorable Ross Seal Swimming in Antarctica
The first-ever photo of a Ross seal swimming underwater. | Photo by Justin Hofman A photographer has captured…
Earth’s 40 000-year axial tilt cycle influenced subtropical marine productivity during early Antarctic ice sheet expansion
The cycle, known as obliquity, reflects changes in the angle of Earth’s axis and affects how solar radiation…
Warmer ocean is driving the Antarctic sea ice ‘regime shift’
Antarctic sea ice extent has reached record lows in recent years Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Scientists…