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

An Australian research team deployed a robotic ocean probe in April 2024 to study Antarctica's hidden depths. The ...

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

There's an unseen world underneath the ice in Antarctica, and footage captured by researchers reveals it's home to a great deal of marine life. This video was recorded under the sea at O'Brien Bay, ...

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 ...

A submarine was exploring underwater structures in Antarctica when it mysteriously went missing without explanation ...

The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they ...

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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 ...

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 ...