A new study lays out the best- and worst-case scenarios for a warming Antarctica. Which one becomes reality is entirely up to ...

The geoid (the surface of equal gravitational potential of a hypothetical ocean at rest) serves as the classical reference ...

A vast “gravity hole” beneath Antarctica became stronger as the continent shifted into an ice-dominated world tens of ...

Antarctica plays a crucial role in Earth's climate system by reflecting solar radiation back into space. The large white ice ...

Antarctic Peninsula projections show accelerating ice loss, warming oceans and global sea level impacts tied to greenhouse gas emissions.

A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might affect sea-level rise ...

We had the Falklands and South Georgia to ourselves, and we really only encountered other ships on two of the days we were in ...

UF launches a new study abroad program that takes students to Antarctica for immersive, hands-on learning in science and ...

Gravity feels reliable—stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over Earth's surface. And it is weakest ...

A team of deep-sea researchers captured video of a sleeper shark prowling nearly 500 meters below the surface near Antarctica’s South Shetland Islands in January 2025, marking the first time the ...

Earth's past, present and future come together here on the northern peninsula of Antarctica, the wildest, most desolate and mysterious of its continents. Clues to answering humanity's most basic ...