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The Midnight sun over the icebergs in the Weddell Sea from the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica.

Antarctica has a ‘gravity hole’

Denman Glacier in Antarctica

Underwater robot survives voyage to ‘never-accessed region of the planet’

Screenshot of ROV video showing icefish nests on floor of Weddell Sea

The quest to find Shackleton’s ship uncovered an Antarctic mystery

Large truck towing ANITA atmospheric survey system in Antarctica

Physicists can’t explain mysterious radio wave emissions in Antarctica

Penguins on an ice sheet in Antarctica

A small amount of penguin poop is enough to spook krill

Frozen surface of Lake Enigma

Life discovered lurking under Antarctica’s frozen Lake Enigma

The good news about ‘giant viruses’ found in the Arctic Circle

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An Antarctic feeding frenzy means good news for vulnerable fin whales

By Corinne Iozzio

Ocean simulator in giant saltwater tank at the Scripps Institute in San Diego, California. A Scripps researcher in a checkered shirt adjusts the settings on a computer with a COVID mask around his elbow.

A 120-foot-long ocean simulator is now making waves across the seven seas

By Avery Schluyer Nunn

An image of the Thwaites Glacier from NASA

Our biggest glacier problem is melting from the bottom-up

By Ted Scambos / The Conversation

Photo of Antarctica.

To grow food in space, we had to start in the Antarctic

By Daniella McCahey / The Conversation

An East Antarctic ice shelf has collapsed

An East Antarctic ice shelf has collapsed

By Sara Kiley Watson

Ice formations and ocean in Antarctica.

Record-breaking heat is bombarding the North and South poles

By Sara Kiley Watson

a yellow wheeled robot approaches a colony of penguins in the snow

The march of the penguins has a new star: an autonomous robot

By Lauren J. Young

two researchers in winter gear crouch over a small rock in an icy windy landscape. next to them are yellow and black snow mobiles

A meteorite-hunting AI will scout for space rocks buried in polar ice

By Tatyana Woodall

Icefish nests encircled in stones on the ocean floor

Icefish build bizarre undersea nests—and that’s just the beginning

boaty the sub in antarctica

Boaty McBoatface’s new mission is more serious than its name

By Charlotte Hu

Antarctica's icy Thwaites glacier in 2017

The ‘doomsday’ glacier is on the brink of collapse

By Sara Kiley Watson

planet earth with a rounded black shadow creeping over its southern pole

International Space Station

A total solar eclipse bathed Antarctica in darkness

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An undersea cable could bring speedy internet to Antarctica

By Charlotte Hu