Antarctica is also known to have some of the most extreme and harsh environments on the planet, where life struggles to exist ...

Scientists have discovered there is more to Antarctica than meets the eye. A new map of the landscape beneath the frozen ...

Antarctica’s vast ice sheet conceals a world of mysteries, from ancient river-carved landscapes to unexplained radio pulses. Cover Images/Zuma Press/dpa Mountains, sub-glacial lakes, hidden valleys, ...

The team used satellite imagery, computer modeling, and an array of different methods to map the ice sheets and glacial flows ...

Earth's past, present and future come together here on the northern peninsula of Antarctica, the wildest, most desolate and mysterious of its continents. Clues to answering humanity's most basic ...

The majority of Antarctica is covered in a thick sheet of ice, but what lies beneath its frozen surface has largely remained ...

A study led by Helen Ockenden maps the hidden terrain under Antarctica’s ice, revealing features that shape glaciers and inform future climate models ...

Deep under almost three kilometers of Antarctic ice, scientists expected to find a frozen archive of Earth’s distant past. Instead, they uncovered a problem that could erase valuable climate records.

New research has revealed that East Antarctica’s vast and icy interior is heating up faster than its coasts, fueled by warm air carried from the Southern Indian Ocean. Using 30 years of weather ...

Frozen for 6 million years, Antarctic ice rewrites Earth’s climate story Scientists have unearthed 6-million-year-old ice, by far the oldest directly dated ice and air ever found.