Warm ocean water is reaching the underside of Antarctic ice shelves through narrow grooves that scientists have only recently ...

A submarine mapped strange hidden structures beneath Antarctica's Dotson Ice Shelf, then vanished without a trace. The post A ...

A tiny robot explorer traversed the vast, frigid waters of Antarctica—even diving under the ice at one point. After miraculously surviving all that, the robot brought back souvenirs for scientists. In ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away at the continent's rapidly degrading ice shelves. Reading time 4 minutes The ...

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 ...

Beneath Antarctica's vast expanse of ice sit hundreds of canyons, some up to tens of thousands of feet deep. These complex formations under a seemingly barren landscape play a significant role in ...

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(Jose A. Bernat Bacete/Moment/Getty Images) If a movie opened with scientists discovering hundreds of earthquakes deep under Antarctica – in a place where they're not supposed to happen, geologically ...

The discovery of the life-forms growing on a boulder far beneath the ice in the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, located in the southeastern Weddell Sea, came as a surprise to the the team of geologists, ...