East Antarctica is the largest ice sheet on Earth. Alone, it holds enough frozen water to raise global sea levels by a ...

The remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East Antarctica have been discovered—and ...

A forgotten set of photos taken by a U.S. Navy plane in 1966 has recently become the key to unlocking some crucial insights ...

Long-lost 1960s aerial photos let Copenhagen researchers watch Antarctica’s Wordie Ice Shelf crumble in slow motion. By ...

An icy new map of Antarctica could help direct the search for alien life The Bedmap3 survey is bringing the polar continent into focus, which could help detect life on icy moons ...

Scientists using a submersible robot discovered patterns under the Antarctic ice that have never been seen before by humans.

Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' worth of technology to take a peek.

A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice removed.

A new detailed map of Antarctica is set to significantly improve predictions of how ice flows and melts in response to climate change, say the scientists behind the project. The map, called ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.

Scientists have completed the most detailed map of the land under the frozen ice sheet of Antarctica. This is the third version of this map, and is known as Bedmap3. It has incorporated data from ...