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. These ...

Whenever large icebergs detach from Antarctica, the international community are understandably alarmed. Not only is this ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

Where does life lurk under the ice of Antarctica? The answers keep surprising us. In January, for example, researchers found corals, sponges and even giant sea spiders some 750 feet under the ...

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

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 ...

When an iceberg the size of Chicago broke off from one of Antarctica's massive floating glaciers in ... With the advent of ...

But beneath Antarctica ... beneath ice layers thousands of meters thick. The ice not only hides these volcanoes but also stabilizes them. Its massive weight holds magma chambers under control ...

Giant icebergs once scraped the seafloor near Britain, offering clues about ancient ice shelves and future sea-level rise.

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.

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 ...

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.