Antarctica has long looked like a blank white smear on world maps, but new ultra detailed surveys are turning that blankness into a rugged landscape of buried mountains, deep valleys and secret mega ...

What happened to the sub when it disappeared beneath the icy depths?

On top of the Hudson Mountains in West Antarctica, strange pink boulders stand starkly against a backdrop of ice, snow, and ...

The map shows diverse geological features shaping Antarctic glaciers from below, which can improve climate models of ice melt. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The new map revealed tens of thousands of previously undiscovered landforms. Alexey Belenkiy via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-SA-3.0 Scientists have long known more about the surfaces of some other ...

The majority of Antarctica is covered in a thick sheet of ice, but what lies beneath its frozen surface has largely remained a mystery. A rare look at the subglacial landscape of the frozen continent ...

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that helped release long-stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Deep-sea ...

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