USCGC Polar Star, the service's only heavy icebreaker, at Coast Guard Base Seattle on Nov. 13, 2025. The ship is preparing to ...

Shackleton’s Endurance sank in 1915, crushed by Antarctic ice and lost beneath 3,000 meters of freezing water. For over a ...

An underwater robot called Lassie has discovered "remarkable" icefish nests while searching for Sir Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship, The Endurance. Scientists uncovered a "new and unusual" phenomenon - ...

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very ...

SYDNEY/MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Chinese icebreaker trying to reach a Russian ship trapped in Antarctica has been halted by thick ice within sight of the stricken vessel, a passenger and Australian rescue ...

The ice trapping the Russian vessel was so thick that two nearby icebreaking ships were unable to safely break through and come to its rescue. The Chinese Xue Long — the "Snow Dragon" — and the ...

A robot found over 1,000 organized fish nests under Antarctic ice, revealing geometric breeding patterns and new clues about ...

Antarctica could be completely ice-free one day if we allow climate change to continue unabated. The change will take thousands of years, but we only have a century to stop it.

Climate change is speeding the spread of global pathogens. Can an early-warning system for animal viruses help stop pandemics ...