In a groundbreaking find, scientists have unearthed the oldest recorded air, trapped within Antarctic ice for an astonishing ...

We know the Earth is old, but getting direct evidence of the deep past is hard, that's why the latest discovery out of ...

Temperature records from measurements of oxygen isotopes in the ice reveal that this area experienced a gradual, long-term ...

The extracted ice block is six million years old, towards the end of the Miocene epoch, and can help to understand the planet ...

Ms Shackleton and her colleagues discovered the ice between 2019 and 2023 in East Antarctica's remote region. The Allan Hills ...

Around 9,000 years ago, East Antarctica went through a dramatic meltdown that was anything but isolated. Scientists have discovered that warm deep ocean water surged beneath the region’s floating ice ...

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological mystery.

This week, scientists are intrigued by the discovery of a nearly white penguin that was discovered in Chilean Antarctica. The penguin, which is a female, is part of a colony of Gentoo penguins — who ...

A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of ...

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

An enormous subglacial trough, deeper than the Grand Canyon, has been discovered in Antarctica. The project involved a large team of U.K. scientists and researchers working the Ellsowrth Subglacial ...

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