Antarctica is ground zero for both theories and experiments nowadays. Most of the shocking discoveries of our generation were all made in Antarctica, and the more we look into it the stranger the land becomes, and the less we know about it. Rece…
The meteorite that exploded over Antarctica was larger than the famous Tunguska meteorite that destroyed 2200 square kilometers of forests in Eastern Siberia in 1908. An international team of researchers has discovered particles of extraterrestr…
Deep beneath Antarctica, locked under an ice shelf some 260 kilometers (161 miles) away from the open ocean, strange life forms have been found. The creatures were discovered by the British Antarctic Survey during an attempt to gather a sedime…
Have you ever wanted to see what Antarctica looks like beneath all its ice? Well, here is your chance. Have you ever wondered about what Antarctica looks like without the massive, mile-thick sheets of ice covering its surface? Looking back at th…
The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) has detected cosmic rays coming not from space but inside Earth. This shouldn't be possible, according to the Standard Model of Physics. There’s a scientific instrument on Antarctica called A…
NASA gives go-ahead for $20M multi-institution balloon experiment led by UChicago scientists. Sometimes a question is so big that it takes a continent to answer it. Top Image: A rendering of what PUEO may look like when deployed. Each white dish i…
While on an expedition in Antarctica, interface designer and filmmaker Alex Cornell was treated to the rare sight of a massive iceberg that had recently flipped over, revealing an extraordinarily vivid blue underside. With the strikingly polished i…
Half a mile beneath the harsh ice sheets of Antarctica, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey found something surprising: stationary life! Despite the cold temperatures and lack of sunlight, these mysterious creatures appear to be thriving. …
The ocean of the water-spurting moon Enceladus might be more active than scientists realized. New theories based on the shape of the ice shell suggest that 12 miles (20 kilometers) below the surface, the ocean inside Saturn's icy moon may …
Scientists have now confirmed that an unusually powerful particle of antimatter crashed down into Antarctica back in December 2016. The collision seems to have triggered a subatomic cascade effect called Glashow resonance, Live Science reports…
For the first time ever, scientists have received mysteriously delayed signals from two supermassive black holes that snacked on stars in their vicinity. In the first case, a black hole weighing as much as 30 million suns located in a galaxy a…
Martian mineral, rare on Earth, found locked in Antarctic ice Scientists boring more than a mile deep into Antarctic ice have unearthed a mineral that's rarely seen on Earth but found in abundance on Mars, Science Magazine reported. An i…
