Antarctica is home to a peak shaped like a perfect pyramid — but contrary to what conspiracy theorists say, the mountain's four symmetrical faces were forged through natural processes.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. The Amery Ice Shelf is one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves, measuring about 23,200 square ...

Amelia Shevenell, PhD, Associate Professor, University of South Florida, is co-lead author of a study published in Nature that concludes the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is more unstable than realized ...

following on claims that the Rosgeo oil exploration company had reported that its research vessel Alexander Karpinsky has completed a comprehensive subsurface geological survey, mapping very ...

Sample locations and inferred geological map of the southern part of Zealandia. Survey ships mapping the magnetic field in the sea strait between Australia and Antarctica discovered various ...