For decades, scientists have repeated some variations of a striking statistic: we know more about the topography of Mars and ...

Some regions of the continent have enough ice to push up sea levels by 15 metres if they all melt, but researchers don’t yet fully understand the consequences ...

The majority of Antarctica is covered in a thick sheet of ice, but what lies beneath its frozen surface has largely remained ...

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

Scientists believe the map could shed light on how Antarctica's vast ice sheet will respond to climate change.

Scientists have discovered there is more to Antarctica than meets the eye. A new map of the landscape beneath the frozen ...

Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet blanketing Antarctica, ...

The New York Times is on an expedition to study Antarctica’s fastest-thinning glaciers. CreditCredit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times For much of January and February, Raymond Zhong, a New York Times ...

In the past, when West Antarctica melted, there was a rapid uptick in onshore geological activity in the area.

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

Earth's past, present and future come together here on the northern peninsula of Antarctica, the wildest, most desolate and mysterious of its continents. Clues to answering humanity's most basic ...

After nearly a century of exploring the continent, and sometimes being food, dogs were kicked out of Antarctica via an ...