ANTARCTICA

After losing contact with a military plane carrying 38 yesterday, the Chilean air force has said that the craft most likely crashed in the Drake Passage.

Rescuers search for Chilean plane missing near Antarctica

Chile military plane disappears with 38 aboard: Air Force

NASA has developed an aquatic rover designed to explore the oceans of alien worlds. To test its capabilities, the agency will head to Antarctica with the rover later this month.

A surprising discovery was just found hiding beneath the Earth's coldest region.

The Antarctica ocean sanctuary plans are part of a push to protect the last pristine continent

New BBC series Seven Worlds, One Planet is the newest nature series produced by the BBC and hosted by David Attenborough. it has a primarily conservative message and features some of the strangest animals from sea spiders to starfishes the size of dinner plates.

Recent observations carried out by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) revealed that the hole in the ozone layer has reached its smallest size ever since its discovery in 1982.

An Australian Antarctic Division image shows a “loose tooth” on the Amery Ice Shelf in eastern Antarctica

The researchers were reconstructing the complex geology of the Mediterranean when the hidden continent of the size of Greenland was discovered.

UFO enthusiasts claimed that a satellite image from Google Earth showed a giant alien face in Antarctica. Many of them claimed that it was made by an ancient alien race that lived in Antarctica.

Researchers recently came across traces of highly radioactive iron while studying the fallen snow in Antarctica. According to the researchers, these traces are most likely remnants of a supernova.

Saving New York City and other coastal areas from sea level rise caused by global warming could involve generating trillions of tons of additional snowfall by pumping ocean water onto glaciers and distributing the snow over West Africa using snow cannons.

These gaps, known as polynyas, are common across Antarctica. Polynyas, which is Russian for “hole in the ice” can form either on shores or further inland.

Scientists at NASA are concerned about an iceberg twice the size of Manhattan breaking off from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf and into the Atlantic Ocean, making it the biggest iceberg to break off of the ice shelf since 1915.