What looked like an iceberg turns out to be an undiscovered Antarctic island, surprising scientists and reshaping maps of the ...

“Uncharted island will soon appear on nautical charts,” as a group of scientists have uncovered a mystery, unnamed landmass ...

Scientists discovered an uncharted Antarctic island in the Weddell Sea during an expedition, prompting updates to global maps ...

A colossal ocean current encircling Antarctica—stronger than all the world’s rivers combined—played a far more complex role in shaping Earth’s climate than scientists once thought. New research shows ...

A few weeks ago, an international expedition exploring the Weddell Sea in the Antarctic stumbled on something truly ...

Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin in 1880, where his father was a minister who ran an orphanage. From an early age he took an interest in Greenland, and always walked, skated, and hiked as though ...

Ever since the continents were all mapped, people had noticed that many coastlines, like those of South America and Africa, looked as though they would fit together if they could be moved like puzzle ...

EXPLORERS have accidentally discovered a new island in Antarctica after seeking shelter from a storm on its shores, and its ...

Well, isle be damned. Explorers made the discovery of a lifetime after stumbling across an uncharted, Egyptian pyramid-sized ...

Polar scientists thought it was a dirty iceberg at first.

New simulations show that the world's strongest ocean current didn't start flowing overnight – several major factors needed ...