antarctica
The Coast of Antarctica is Starting to Turn Green
The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of Antarctica, and has the mildest climate on the continent. In January, the…
Greenland and Antarctica are Losing Their Ice 6 Times Faster than in the 1990s
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Balloon-Based Cosmic Ray Observatory is Now on its Second Trip Around Antarctica
The SuperTIGER-2 flight just completed its second tour around Antarctica in its mission to determine the origin and nature of…
Aquatic Rover Drives on the Underside of the Ice in Antarctica
Not all rovers are designed to roam around on the surface of other worlds like Mars. One rover, at least,…
Astronomers Find a Chunk of a Comet Inside a Meteorite
The early days of the Solar System are hard to piece together from our vantage point, billions of years after…
Antarctica is About to Unleash an Iceberg Twice the Size of New York City
An ice shelf in Antarctica is about to give birth to a baby. This baby is a giant, spawned by…
This is Ice in Antarctica, Flowing in Slow Motion Like Water Going Through River Rapids
As part of their ninth year monitoring the Antarctic peninsula, Operation IceBridge recently flew above the ice sheet and took…
Antarctica has a Huge Mantle Plume Beneath it, Which Might Explain Why its Ice Sheet is so Unstable
A new study led by researchers from NASA JPL has provided compelling evidence for the existence of a mantle plume…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sampler Slingshots Around Earth Friday, Sept. 22 – Catch It If You Can!
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Barely a year after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx robotic asteroid sampler launched on a trailblazing mission to…
Satellite Images Show a Trillion Ton Iceberg Broke Off Antarctica
For several months, scientists have been keeping an eye on a piece of Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf, waiting for…