Bulges might appear when lakes under the ice sheet fill, or disappear when they empty. More than 140 active subglacial lakes ...

Scientific Data (2025). Creative Commons. Scientists have unveiled the most detailed map yet of the landscape hidden beneath Antarctica's ice. The high-resolution map reveals what the frozen ...

Antarctica is one of only two places on the planet almost completely covered by ice sheets, with Greenland being the other. The Antarctic ice sheet covers about 98% of the continent's land mass ...

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers could have dramatic global consequences. As Totten Glacier oozes off the ...

When an iceberg the size of Chicago broke off from one of Antarctica's massive floating ... robots it shouldn't be hard to work under significant ice, he said, but it remains a serious ...

Antarctica is covered with ice that is miles thick, and scientists have been studying what the continent's landscape looks like under all that ice for years. Bedmap3 comes 12 years after BAS ...

Off Antarctica, the biggest mystery isn’t centered on any particular creature but on the entire ecosystem: How exactly does that much life thrive under so much ice? In other parts of the ocean ...

Bulges might appear when lakes under the ice sheet fill, or disappear when they empty. More than 140 active subglacial lakes have been identified beneath Antarctica over the past two decades.