East Antarctica’s Wilkes Land and Queen Mary Land region recorded 108 gigatons of average ice sheet mass gain per year from ...

Hidden beneath the Antarctic ice lies a system of lakes and watercourses. A research team, including ETH researchers, has for ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed glowing auroras on Jupiter like never before.

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Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and it's been that way for around 34 million years. Yet researchers have only ...

The mysterious ‘ghost mountains’ – buried beneath kilometres of Antarctic ice – have puzzled scientists for decades.

Ships that can cut through the ice are ever more valuable as the world warms and commerce turns north. But just how does an ...

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Over 150 years ago, in 1867, the United States acquired Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. Since then, it has not expanded ...

Scientists have uncovered an 18,000-year-old behemoth in the North Sea, showing the existence of ice blocks larger than ...

A groundbreaking study published inGeophysical Research Letters has revealed that Earth’s North and South Poles are shifting ...

Greenland lies across the most direct routes from Russia to the populous east coast of the US, and is the closest territory ...