"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

One notable discovery is that Antarctica’s thickest ice was found in an unnamed canyon in Wilkes Land. The ice there is more ...

Earlier maps placed the thickest ice in the Astrolabe Basin In Adelie Land. Here’s why this new map is critical: It will help researchers figure out how Antarctica might respond to warming ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released the most detailed map yet of what Antarctica looks like when ... of ice that contains 70% of the entire world's supply of fresh water.

“Most of this Continent is completely unknown and unexplored,” notes this map of Antarctica from the 1956 Oxford School Atlas ... with some 40 percent of the world’s ocean — extending ...

These findings, published March 20 in Nature Communications, stem from 20 years of work to map the hidden continent cloaked beneath Antarctica ... They combined maps of the subglacial landscape ...

Dragon and the crew will launch to a 90° circular orbit from Florida, and travel to ~440 km above Earth to explore the polar regions of our planet": SpaceX ...

Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' ...