A team of researchers attempted to drill into Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica to understand the impact of warm ocean water below.

A high-risk scientific mission to probe the ocean beneath Antarctica’s most unstable glacier collapsed just short of success after instruments became .

Scientists lost their instruments within Antarctica’s most dangerously unstable glacier, though not before getting a glimpse at the warming waters underneath.

The first tourists stepped ashore at Smith Island and Melchior Islands on the Antarctic Peninsula on January 23, 1966. Since ...

Scientists are preparing to drill into the most inaccessible and least-understood part of Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier”.

After working and camping for a week on Thwaites Glacier, scientists were ready to start drilling into the ice, if only the ...

A globetrotter, who has explored every single country in the world and over 400 islands, has labelled one island as the 'world's best' following an 'unforgettable' experience ...

Helen Ockenden, lead study author from Grenoble Alpes University, described the achievement to the BBC: "It's like before you had a grainy pixel film camera, and now you've got a properly zoomed-in ...

Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and South Korea have reached one of the most remote and least studied parts of ...

Welcome to a bumper edition of our postcard update!Rothera Research Station has been a hive of activity since our last postcard with science and ...

A team hopes to place instruments in the waters beneath the colossal Thwaites Glacier, with the help of a drill that uses hot ...