Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ice conceals a rugged landscape. A view over the Wilson Piedmont in Antarctica shows examples of the ice surface and what the ...

One of the least-mapped planetary surfaces in our solar system is closer to home than you might expect: the continent of Antarctica. While Antarctica's icy surface is fairly well-studied, its ...

A new generation of ice-penetrating maps has turned the blank white of Antarctica into a richly contoured world of mountains, valleys, rivers and lakes. For the first time, scientists can trace this ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet blanketing Antarctica, uncovering an exuberant landscape of mountains, canyons, ...

A network of triangular basins, arranged in a coherent fan-like pattern, has been identified beneath miles of ice covering ...

Beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf lies one of the least measured oceans on Earth—a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea. This hidden ocean matters because it is the ice ...

In Antarctica, two giant rifts, known as Chasm 1 and Halloween Crack, split across the Brunt Ice Shelf. The implications of ...

A comprehensive 30-year study led by University of California, Irvine glaciologists has produced a circumpolar ice grounding line migration map of Antarctica. An amalgamation of three decades of ...

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning both hemispheres of the globe. The Western Hemisphere sector of the ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by The Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Antarctica’s west coast is missing an area of winter sea ice the size of ...