Over two and a half years, the robot traveled more than 300 kilometers beneath the Denman and Shackleton Ice Sheets. It ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

Two fascinating discoveries push our understanding of Antarctica far beyond the icy surface we know. One reveals a preserved ...

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...

Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers report in Nature Geoscience. The team used radio echo sounding, a technique ...

The ice caps which cover our planet's poles are key to understanding global weather patterns and changing climate. But we still don't have a complete understanding of how they work, and what goes on ...

Our reporter sends a dispatch from the icebreaker Araon, currently on its way to Antarctica, about the scientists, their work ...

Deep beneath the massive sheet of ice that covers much of west Antarctica, scientists have discovered a mysterious chain of hidden lakes that may be causing ice streams to slip as they flow into the ...

Russian scientists finally found the Antarctic freshwater lake they’ve been looking for after drilling for over 20 years. Located more than 2 miles beneath the ice’s surface, Lake Vostok has been ...

Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water that attack the ice from below. These secretive currents, spinning in the ...