Antarctica

Knowing how much ice Antarctica is losing is critical to understanding how climate change will affect humanity both now and in the future.

"It's so flat and white and boring in every direction but underneath you is a mountain range as big as the Pyrenees."

The Humane Society International has condemned the "cruelty of Japan's whale hunt."

They are some of the last unexplored parts on Earth; the largest is more than 200 miles long.

Tooth fragments discovered in Berlin in 1945 belonged to Hitler, proving he died as the Allies approached.

The Russian leader thinks foreign maps sometimes do not reflect the "historical and geographic truth" when it comes to his country.

Researchers want to study ocean biology, physics, temperatures and currents. But finding a shipwreck would be awesome.

More snowfall may sound like a positive sign, but it's not.

Between 2010 and 2016, an area of Antarctica's submerged ice roughly the size of London melted.

The first member of the flock to spy the recording object goes in for a close-up, before a friend tries to hijack his spot.

The Danger Islands are cold and treacherous, but dang if they don't have a ton of penguins.

The minke whale camera is part of an ongoing effort to better protect Antarctica's whale feeding areas.

Millions of penguins could starve to death if they don't find a new habitat.

A new technique compiled hundreds of thousands of images over seven years.

The marine life has been covered by the Larsen C Ice Shelf for up to 120,000 years.

Satellite data over 25 years confirms what climate models had predicted.

Beneath the cavernous ice holds critical data.

Understanding ice shelves is key to projecting sea level rise.

The image was captured by NASA's Landsat 8 satellite.

The beast looks like Scotland's legendary Loch Ness Monster.

What does this mean for life beyond Earth?

"The secular science community has no viable answers to explain remarkable finds like these."

Melting of the Aurora Basin in East Antarctica could cause 10 to 15 feet of sea level rise on its own.

The winner of this year's Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition depicts a strange yet beautiful scene in Antarctica.

The worst scenario would flood lands that are home to 236 million people.

The 700-foot tall, 300-mile-long wall has been protecting the Seven Kingdoms for thousands of years. Would it hold up on Earth?

The discovery opens up the tantalizing possibility that on other planets, life forms that need only atmospheric gas to survive exist, too.

The launch depends on good weather, but then it will be smooth sailing 127,000 feet up.

The iceberg spanned over 100 square miles.

A strange pond in Antarctica that never freezes could be key to helping us understand water, and possible life, on Mars.