Never seen, perhaps, but that doesn't mean forever to remain unknown. For years, the British Antarctic Survey has been flying ...

Underneath Antarctica’s endless sheets of ice lies a hidden world of deep valleys, towering peaks, and sprawling plains. For ...

Once thought a block of worthless ice, this continent is in fact incredibly valuable and plays a key role in stabilizing ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

For years, the BAS has been studying the bedrock beneath Antarctica's thick ice using advanced radar, sound waves, and gravity mapping techniques.

We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...

More accurate maps based on data from the SWOT mission ... South America, and the Antarctic Peninsula. Purple denotes regions that are lower relative to higher areas like seamounts, depicted ...

A new effort using data from a NASA-led satellite is helping to change that, providing one of the most detailed maps of the bottom ... and the Antarctic Peninsula. Purple areas highlight lower ...

Understanding the landscape beneath the ice helps scientists reconstruct Antarctica’s geological history, revealing how continents have shifted and how climate has changed. Previous maps ...

Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar technology — sound waves that bounce off the bottom — to measure depth. But the ...