One sunny spot in the southern hemisphere is both the smallest continent in the world and a country in its own right.

Majestic whales, massive penguin colonies, and leopard seals lounging on ice. Antarctica is one of the last truly wild and remote places left on Earth. But in recent years, more expedition-style ...

This type of journey usually starts in Cape Town, South Africa, where you fly private to an ice runway on mainland Antarctica ...

Scientists have discovered amber in the sediment core recovered from thousands of feet below the surface of the Antarctic, a ...

One of Antarctica's greatest mysteries remained so for decades. Blood Falls, as the name suggests, is a haunting bloody red ...

Antarctica's waterbodies and mountains of ice make it a continent like no other. The sheer immensity of the ice sheet is staggering. Its weight can deform the globe should it melt, with sea levels ...

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments ...