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

Never seen, perhaps, but that doesn't mean forever to remain unknown. For years, the British Antarctic Survey has been flying planes over the frozen southern continent, using radar, sound waves, and ...

Through satellite gravimetry analysis of Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) mass changes from 2002 to 2023, striking mass change rates ...

For decades, satellites have played a crucial role in our understanding of the remote polar regions. The ongoing loss of ...

One of the biggest challenges in predicting Antarctica's deeply uncertain future is understanding exactly what's driving its ...

Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.

Antarctica isn’t a floating chunk ... were used to map out the bedrock beneath the colossal ice sheet – which has an average thickness of 2,148 meters (7,047 feet) – including radar, seismic ...

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s ...

seismic and gravity measurements to map the bedrock and estimate the thickness of the ice sheet above it. Against their expectations, they found that the place with the thickest ice in Antarctica ...

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

Underneath Antarctica’s endless sheets of ice lies a hidden ... 118.378°E. Here, the ice reaches an incredible thickness of 4,757 meters (15,607 feet), taller than nearly every mountain in ...

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.