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 ...

Antarctica’s ice sheet is the largest mass of ice on Earth, and about half the ice sheet is more than 5 kilometers (3 miles) from any bed topography measurement. This means that what lies beneath is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released an interactive map of Antarctica. It combines information on coastlines and ...

Just when scientists thought they'd mapped out some of the lowest, deepest land found on Earth, a brand new map has changed everything. A new NASA creation, the BedMachine Antarctica map, has combined ...

Dec. 12 (UPI) --Scientists have successfully mapped the topography of the land beneath Antarctica's ice sheet at high resolution by combining radar observations with ice volume and flow velocity data.

Antarctica’s peculiar green snow is spreading, according to researchers who have created the first large-scale map of microscopic algae growing on the chilly, southernmost continent. As the climate ...

For decades, scientists have repeated some variations of a striking statistic: we know more about the topography of Mars and Mercury than we do about the ground beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. It’s ...

Image: Dots represent the locations where scientists have identified 124 active lakes below the ice sheet in Antarctica. Warmer colors (orange and red) depict lakes with larger water volumes while ...

Scientists have discovered the world's deepest land canyon thousands of feet below an Antarctic glacier. Glaciologists led by the University of California, Irvine have unveiled what they describe as ...

Glaciologists have unveiled the most accurate portrait yet of the contours of the land beneath Antarctica's ice sheet -- and, by doing so, have helped identify which regions of the continent are going ...