During the 2025-26 Antarctic summer season, the international IceCube collaboration completed a major upgrade of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. The new equipment is expected to improve the observatory’s ability to detect low-energy neutrinos, elusive particles that can travel across the cosmos largely unaffected by matter.

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is often described as the world's most powerful ocean current, flowing uninterrupted around Antarctica. According to new research, this defining feature of the Southern Ocean did not emerge in the straightforward way scientists once imagined.

Scientists in Australia are unlocking atmospheric secrets preserved deep within Antarctic ice, refining techniques that could eventually reveal how Earth's climate behaved more than one million years ago.

One of the most significant achievements of the First French Antarctic Expedition was the systematic survey of the western Antarctic Peninsula, including parts of Graham Land and the Palmer Archipelago.

The Antarctic coast is far more than the continent’s outer edge. It is a dynamic region where grounded ice, floating ice shelves, ocean waters, the atmosphere and the underlying geology interact. Changes in this narrow zone can influence how quickly ice flows into the ocean and, ultimately, how much Antarctica contributes to global sea level rise.

Antarctica has no continent-wide rescue service waiting to respond to emergencies. Instead, search and rescue operations depend on a network of national Antarctic programmes, government agencies, ships, aircraft operators and rescue coordination centres working together across enormous distances.