Underneath Antarctica’s endless sheets of ice lies a hidden world of deep valleys, towering peaks, and sprawling plains. For ...

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers ...

Antarctica’s total ice volume is now estimated at 27.17 million cubic kilometers (6.52 million cubic miles). The ice sheet ...

A calving iceberg exposed a region that never before had been seen by human eyes, revealing a vibrant, thriving ecosystem ...

Antarctica isn’t a floating chunk of ice like the Arctic. Beneath its frozen surface sits a solid continent of mountains, ...

A new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed.

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...

Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed map yet" of Antarctica's landscape beneath its blanket of ice, a ...

For years, the BAS has been studying the bedrock beneath Antarctica's thick ice using advanced radar, sound waves, and gravity mapping techniques.

along the Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctic coastlines , and in the Transantarctic Mountains. The outline of deep valleys is better represented, as are those places where rocky mountains ...

Bedmap3 has revealed hidden wonders under the icy surface of the Earth’s southernmost continent. From deep valleys to ...

The findings include the highest Antarctic mountains and deepest canyons, as well as points where the ice plunges to depths of up to 15,607 ft (4,757 m). According to BAS, the purpose of this is ...