Measuring roughly 1,350 square miles (3,500 square kilometers) across, A23a is the world's largest and oldest iceberg ...

A time-lapse view of Antarctica & the moon can be seen in footage captured by the Meteosat-11 satellite. Credit: Simon Proud ...

Antarctica, however ... from 2003 to 2010, the ICESat satellite circled the Earth in a north-south orbit, keeping an eye on the poles. But ICESat got no lower than 364 miles above ground, and ...

Europe's dedicated polar-monitoring satellite has produced its sharpest view yet of the shape of Antarctica. The Cryosat mission has been measuring height changes on the White Continent since 2010 ...

Satellite images, including recent data captured ... Iceberg A23a has been a concern for scientists since it broke away from the Antarctic ice shelf in 1986. After remaining immobile for over ...

Researchers from the universities of Exeter and Hertfordshire and the British Antarctic Survey used satellite data to assess how much the Antarctic Peninsula has been ‘greening’ in response to ...

Researchers from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have carried out aerial surveys of the remote volcanic Zavodovski Island in the sub-Antarctic to count the largest penguin colony in the world.

Molar Berg is the biggest ice block to come off Amery in more than 50 years The EU's Sentinel-2 satellite system got a great view of Antarctica's newest giant iceberg on Wednesday. Cloudless skies ...

The European Space agency Copernicus Sentinel satellite detected a giant hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica, as part of the EU's Environmental monitoring program. The hole which scientists ...