Antarctica

Scientists are scouring the remote Antarctic ice cap for rare meteorites chock-full of iron and holding secrets to the history of our solar system going back some 4.5 billion years.

Two large rifts have widened near the edge of Pine Island Glacier on the West Antarctic ice sheet. If they continue to grow, they could release an iceberg four times bigger than Manhattan.

Antarctica's ice shelves are under attack at their most vulnerable points.

An iceberg the size of the Isle of Skye has broken free from Antarctica's Amery Ice Shelf.

Tons of snow made from seawater could stabilize failing ice.

The world's largest iceberg turned 2 years old today (July 12) and has already drifted more than 150 miles from its Antarctic home.

A huge lake of sizzling hot lava has been discovered in a volcano on a remote sub-Antarctic island in the South Atlantic Ocean.

A remote science station in Antarctica forced to close over the polar winter by a dangerous ice chasm is completely empty of human life.

The bizarre holes have been popping up sporadically in the sea ice since the 1970s.

The potential for the Ross ice shelf in Antarctica to collapse is determined by a newly discovered rock boundary running right down the middle of the ice.

Researchers scouring the desert for space rocks found the oldest collection of meteorites on Earth.

Decades of climate change have severely weakened 24% of western Antarctica's ice.

This speck of primeval stardust may hold clues about the origin of the solar system.

In 2017, the open sea grew nearly 100 times its size in just a month.

The second-largest emperor penguin colony in the world appears to be collapsing, after rough seas drowned all of its babies three winters in a row.

European scientists looking for some of the oldest ice on the planet have homed in on a particular spot in Antarctica.