The mission had begun as a routine analysis of a glacier. It turned into an unplanned expedition into the heart of the most ...

An Argo ocean float was lost in the Antarctic for months under the Denman and Shackleton ice shelves, and it returned with ...

A new 3D scan has revealed previously unseen details of the wreck of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton’s HMS Endurance, which was found in 2022 – more than a century after the ship sank. The scan, ...

A robotic float has measured the temperature and salinity from parts of the ocean never sampled before—underneath massive floating ice shelves in East Antarctica.

Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance has been seen like never before in a detailed 3D scan. The wreck of the explorer’s vessel was found 3,000 metres beneath the surface of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea in ...

During the "Heroic Age of Exploration," the period in which Shackleton's 1914-1916 British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition took place, Antarctic expeditions often became ordeals of suffering. At ...

The great polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton never achieved his goal of traversing the continent of Antarctica, but is remembered these days for something more extraordinary. One hundred years ago, ...

Pilot Luis Pardo who was the skipper of the scout ship Yelcho and challenged Antarctica's ice to rescue Shackleton's crew The fragile looking Yelcho gallantly displayed following her feat The ...

The great polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton never achieved his goal of traversing the continent of Antarctica, but is remembered these days for something more extraordinary. One hundred years ago, ...