Antarctica is 600 miles (about 1,000 kilometers) from any major city, almost entirely uninhabited, and surrounded by a cold ...

A dinosaur fossil collected in Antarctica in 1985 has been identified decades later as belonging to a titanosaur, a group of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antarctica is usually unoccupied except for scientists, wealthy tourists, and adventurers. Surprisingly, though, a small number of ...

A team of scientists has uncovered what may be one of the largest hidden geological structures on Earth — a continent-sized "megastructure" buried deep beneath Antarctica. It's so massive, in fact, ...

A tiny seed is stuck between loose gravel and coarse sand. There is nothing else alive around it. All it can see is a wall of ice reaching 20 meters up into the sky. It is cold. Survival is hard ...

Despite freezing temperatures, fierce winds and months of darkness, Antarctica is home to a surprising variety of ...

My husband and I just marked a significant milestone by visiting our seventh continent together: Antarctica. During the past 20 years, our mutual love for exploration has taken us to every corner of ...

It was five years ago this month that ESA’s GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding buried treasure – giving a new view of the remnants of lost ...

The chance to travel to the farthest corner of the planet, the Antarctic continent, is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for most people. It’s the last frontier on Earth, a place where explorers such ...

It was a bright, sunny afternoon during the recent summer season in Antarctica when the Seabourn Pursuit cruise ship rammed into a sheet of sea ice in Hanusse Bay. The ship plowed forward, ice ...

For over 60 years Antarctica has been a "veritable Shangri-La", said The Economist, "untouched by war, unspoilt by humans, where all nationalities are welcome". The treaty has "endured and expanded" ...

Earth's southernmost continent and the frozen landmass surrounding the South Pole, Antarctica is among the most remote tourist destinations in the world. With no permanent population due to the ...