A 2018 satellite photo shows the aptly named Deception Island, which was formed by a massive eruption 4,000 years ago and remains volcanically active today.

NASA's PREFIRE mission, involving two CubeSats launched from New Zealand, aims to resolve uncertainties about far-infrared ...

This striking satellite photo shows off ... Experts believe this was the largest eruption in Antarctica for at least the last 12,000 years, according to NASA's Earth Observatory.

Antarctica, however ... had been using another NASA satellite, Landsat, to monitor the giant iceberg. He took advantage of imagery captured by IceBridge to get a different perspective.

A recent push by the NASA Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to shine a light into that darkness has been illuminating, to say the least.

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Antarctica's icy expanse to kick off the annual Antarctic Long-Duration Balloon Campaign, where two balloon flights will carry a total of nine ...

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Antarctica's icy expanse to kick ... EMIDSS-6 (Experimental Module for Iterative Design of Satellite Subsystems 6), led by National Polytechnical ...

Scientists recently discovered that plant life is taking over the Antarctic Peninsula, turning the edges of a once-barren ...

NASA satellite measurements calculate that since 2004, Antarctica as a whole is losing 130 billion tons of ice each year. This is the weight equivalent of 356,000 Empire State Buildings.

NASA images reveal the journey of this gargantuan slab of ice as it made a break for the open waters of the Southern Ocean, finally escaping the grips of Antarctica. NASA images show iceberg A-23A ...

NASA's Landsat 8 satellite captured an image of Deception ... These measurements, which track heat escaping from the Arctic and Antarctic, provide critical insights into Earth’s energy balance ...

The decline of sea ice around Antarctica is fueling more frequent storms in the Southern Ocean, a new study finds.