Nearby ice shelves, including the Larsen B Ice Shelf, have already disintegrated, and recent research has shown that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet as well as the East Antarctic Ice Sheet are more ...

A time-lapse view of Antarctica & the moon can be seen in footage captured by the Meteosat-11 satellite. Credit: Simon Proud / NCEO and EUMETSAT | mash mix by Space.com Finnish President on ...

A more-recent study suggests that increased snowfall on the eastern end of Antarctica—another result ... from 2003 to 2010, the ICESat satellite circled the Earth in a north-south orbit, keeping ...

Satellite images, including recent data captured by NOAA's GOES ... been a concern for scientists since it broke away from the Antarctic ice shelf in 1986. After remaining immobile for over ...

Researchers from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have carried out aerial surveys of the remote volcanic Zavodovski Island in the sub-Antarctic to count the largest penguin colony in the world.