Far beneath the creaking surface of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, scientists have uncovered a granite body roughly 60 miles ...

Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf is a hidden ocean – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea.

THE mystery of what really lies beneath the ice on Antarctica has finally been revealed. Experts have mapped out the Frozen ...

Ancient river landscapes buried beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet have been uncovered by radar, revealing vast, flat surfaces formed over 80 million years ago before Antarctica froze. These hidden ...

On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples ...

At a very southern ribbon-cutting ceremony on the Antarctic snowpack Wednesday, scientists stored long cores of ice taken ...

An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old. The goal of the French duo is to better ...

Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming changes. Sea ice is ...

Ancient ice is the closest thing that nature has to the perfect reference book. Its layers comprise centuries upon centuries of snowfall, compressing the powder beneath so heavily that it turns to ice ...

When seventeen-year-old Luke Boswell landed in Antarctica’s Deep Field, he expected cold. What he didn’t expect was the scale ...