Antarctica's subglacial bedrock was previously one of the least-mapped planetary surfaces in our solar system.

New Antarctica map reveals a landscape of hidden valleys and channels beneath ice, improving sea-level rise and ice flow ...

Up to 98 percent of Antarctica is caked in miles-thick ice sheets, some of which formed millions upon millions of years ago. Beneath this layer of frozen water, there lies a rugged, rocky continent ...

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very ...

Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.

Scientists have completed the most detailed map of the land under the frozen ice sheet of Antarctica. This is the third version of this map, and is known as Bedmap3. It has incorporated data from ...

More than 9,300 feet above sea level on the Antarctic ice sheet, the ceremony unfolds on the first day of a new year. Sitting ...

WASHINGTON – A team of researchers from NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Science Foundation and the British Antarctic Survey unveiled a newly completed map of Antarctica today that is ...

Using satellite data, scientists examined the changing states of polar ice and drafted velocity maps that revealed a dramatic ...