“The object comes from the asteroid belt and probably plopped down into the Antarctic blue ice several tens of thousands of years ago,” said researcher Ryoga Maeda of the Vrije Universiteit ...

Bizarre blue streaks dotted across an ice shelf in Antarctica have been spotted by NASA. These images, snapped by the OLI ...

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 ...

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.

If the sheets of ice that sit on top of Antarctica and Greenland were to collapse, the rate of sea-level rise could skyrocket, making coastal cities uninhabitable and destroying trillions of ...