Antarctica

Home News The scientists controlled the uncrewed submarine from the RV Nathaniel B Palmer. (Image credit: Alex Mazur/British Antarctic Survey) A robotic submarine has returned from the dark underbelly of one of Antarctica's largest glaciers with chilling news — it could be melting faster than we previously thought. Thwaites Glacier,…

In a new paper published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, an international team of researchers presents the results from a long-term collection of extraterrestrial particles performed during the last two decades near the French-Italian CONCORDIA station in Antarctica. These SEM images show cosmic spherules and unmelted micrometeorites…

Home News An image shows cracks on the surface of the Larsen b ice shelf, which covers waters off the shore of the Antarctic peninsula. (Image credit: Shutterstock) A third of Antarctica's vast offshore ice shelves could collapse into the ocean if the world warms by 4 degrees Celsius (7.2…

Ran, the unscrewed submarine that the scientists used, heading down into the depths under the Thwaites GlacierPhoto: Filip Stedt (Getty Images)Glaciers all over Antarctica are in trouble as ice there rapidly melts. There’s no Antarctic glacier whose fate is more consequential for our future than the Thwaites Glacier, and new research…

(Below you will find a large number of spoilers for “Godzilla vs Kong”) We don’t get a lot of “versus” movies all that often — the last big one was “Batman v Superman” back in 2016 — but these sorts of title showdowns have been a hallmark of the “Godzilla”…

By Adam Vaughan The Larsen C ice shelf on the east of the Antarctic Peninsula NASA ICE Around a third of the ice shelves holding back huge glaciers in Antarctica are at risk of collapse if the world fails to take sufficient action on climate change, new projections have found.…

Home News Science & Astronomy Scientists found evidence that a meteor vaporized over Antarctica 430,000 years ago, burning up in a dramatic plume of hot gases. (Image credit: Mark Garlick / markgarlick.com) Roughly 430,000 years ago, an incandescent ball of hot gas came barreling out of the sky and slammed…

Researchers have found meteoritic spherules on top of Walnumfjellet in the Sør Rondane Mountains, Antarctica. The breakup of a giant asteroid in the main asteroid belt. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech. “Remnants of hypervelocity impacts on Earth’s surface are mainly preserved as impact craters, generally circular depressions resulting from asteroids…

Artist’s interpretation of the hot jet of molten particles and hot gas, striking the ancient Antarctic surface. Image: Mark A. GarlickAsteroids that smash directly into Earth’s surface can cause extensive damage, but, as new evidence uncovered in east Antarctica suggests, asteroids that explode on entry can be equally devastating. Super…

An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a military camp built on top of a “giant tree stump” in Antarctica. Facebook/Screenshot Verdict: False The image shows a South African research facility on an Antarctic nunatak, a rocky mountainous outcropping that protrudes from the snow. Fact Check: In the image, several…