The standard image of Antarctica is vast, featureless sheets of ice and blowing blizzards. But soaring rocky mountains with deep valleys cut like a knife into the continent of Antarctica, evoking the ...

McArie Island, located between New Zealand and Antarctica, is a geological treasure that offers a glimpse into Earth’s deep past. Unlike most islands, McArie is composed entirely of oceanic crust and ...

Remote Antarctic rocks hold strong new evidence that parts of Antarctica and North America were connected more than a billion years ago, researchers say.

Moon rocks aren't just about the rock — the gas trapped inside is just as intriguing. A new examination of six lunar meteorites found in Antarctica has revealed the first definitive proof that ...

Learn more about the rock library that holds ancient rocks and clues from the Transantarctic Mountains.

Researchers did not expect the huge size of the meteorite given the frigid continent's history of thousands of space rocks uncovered unil now.

Long before European colonizers sighted the continent, legendary explorer Hui Te Rangiora may have seen Antarctica.

The arid soils of the Antarctic Dry Valleys constitute some of the oldest, coldest, driest and most oligotrophic soils on Earth. Early studies suggested that the Dry Valley soils contained, at ...

Antarctic scientists detect unexplained radio waves under the ice while searching for neutrinos, with researcher Stephanie Wissel noting these signals defy physics ...

"The Antarctic ice sheets blanket and mask the bedrock geology of Antarctica," said Benowitz, a co-author on the paper. "The time-temperature evolution of Transantarctic basement rocks can provide ...

Dating the underlying rocks will hopefully give scientists a good idea of the last time that this part of Antarctica was ice free.

The standard image of Antarctica is vast, featureless sheets of ice and blowing blizzards. But soaring rocky mountains with deep valleys cut like a knife into the continent of Antarctica, evoking the ...