A surprising event that has caught the attention of scientists around the world. Thislarge gap in the sea ice remained open ...

Feast your eyes on these 20 captivating photos that show you what ... the coastline on the Antarctic peninsula. Antarctica is ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

A mysterious hole larger than Maryland has reappeared in the middle of Antarctica after 42 years. Scientists aren't sure how it got there. This isn't the first time it's appeared. The hole is a ...

A giant hole has appeared in the sea ice of Antarctica and it's as big as Switzerland. The sea in Antarctica usually freezes over in winter but this hole was formed far from land, in the middle of ...

The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica was discovered in the 1980s. It begins to form each year in August and reached its maximum size late September or early October, before closing from mid ...

The Wilkes Land crater is a hole in the bedrock beneath East Antarctica's ice sheet measuring 315 miles (510 kilometers) across. Researchers have been trying to explain its existence since the ...

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

Maud Rise, an underwater mountain, stirs ocean currents ... cyclones physically moved ice outward, helping keep the hole exposed longer than expected. The polynya echoed similar openings seen ...