"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

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

NBC’s Chase Cain reports from Antarctica, where melting ice is accelerating sea level rise and disrupting global weather ...

Mites are common in the Antarctic – there are hundreds of species. Some even live in the nasal cavities of penguins. Penguin ...

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

A research group led by Associate Professor Kohei Mizobata, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, including ...

Once thought a block of worthless ice, this continent is in fact incredibly valuable and plays a key role in stabilizing ...

Scientists have unveiled the most detailed map yet of the landscape hidden beneath Antarctica's ice. The high-resolution ... if that's more familiar to you] — all the lumps, all the bumps ...

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

In the first study to consider the long-term evolution of the rivers that flow beneath glaciers, researchers have new ...

Derived from 60 years of data, it will help scientists understand ice flows better. Antarctica is the toughest of all the continents to map because almost its entire land surface and even much of ...