New research sheds light on what drives reddish water to emerge from underground to pour onto the Taylor Glacier.

BEIJING, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Amidst the drifting ice and fog of Antarctica's Amundsen Sea, scientists aboard China's polar research icebreaker Xuelong, or Snow Dragon, spotted a mysterious phenomenon ...

The 748-foot-long sediment core contains a record of roughly the past 23 million years, including periods when the planet's surface temperature was hotter than it is today ...

Many experts had thought sharks didn’t exist in the frigid waters of Antarctica before this sleeper shark lumbered warily and briefly into the spotlight of a video camera, researcher Alan Jamieson ...

Feb. 17's annular solar eclipse occurred as the lunar disk slipped between the sun and Earth during its new moon phase. The ...

A stunning “ring of fire” eclipse was totally visible to a lucky few in the Southern Hemisphere. Here’s how to see the next one ...

Geologists from St. Petersburg State University, as part of an international scientific team, have analyzed rock data from ...

Chelsea Hylton is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. An Inglewood native, Hylton has her master's degree from USC. She covers local breaking news across the Southern California region. Before joining ...

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life ...

This ad hoc committee will provide guidance to the National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs on future directions for Southern Ocean and Antarctic nearshore and coastal research. The ...

“Antarctic Dreams: Art from the End of the Earth” by Sally Cullen, Meg Files and Susan Reimer. Moon Pony Press. $20. So, three artists go to the end of the earth, and what do they bring us back? A ...