An intrepid penguin hailing from New Zealand’s Snares Island has popped up in the Chilean city of Punta Arenas, more than 7500km away; The Snares penguin’s visit was described ...

Antarctica’s only native insect, called Belgica antarctica, has adapted to survive in extreme cold temperatures, which could ...

Quark Expeditions will also launch a new 14-day expedition called ‘Antarctica by Helicopter: Crossing the Circle & the ...

A team of scientists from Bowling Green State University are currently en route to Antarctica in search of groundbreaking new data that could play a key role in the future of climate research.

For context, the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth, the Large Hadron Collider, accelerates protons to an energy of 7 Tera-electronVolts (TeV). The neutrino that was detected had an energy of ...

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

Antarctica’s only native insect could provide inspiration for how humans could travel into deep space. The tiny midge called ...

Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native ...

Researchers have generated the first dataset of water flow beneath the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, which will lead to more accurate projections of sea level rise. The team modeled Antarctica's ...

Michelle Spear of Columbus captured this shot of a whale breaching off the coast of Antarctica on Feb. 8. Michelle Spear of Columbus captured this shot of a whale breaching off the coast of Antarctica ...

Two hundred million years ago, icy Antarctica was a lush, temperate region, home to crocodile-sized amphibians and rhinoceros-sized dinosaurs.

Feb. 12, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Sunday, Feb. 16 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV and 8 p.m. on KPBS 2. In Antarctica, killer whales hunt using their intelligence and teamwork. Swimming ...