A connected province of giant subglacial basins stretching across East Antarctica has been identified for the first time, ...

Researchers have drilled 523 meters through Antarctica’s ice, uncovering a sediment core that spans 23 million years of climate history. The core, retrieved from the remote Crary Ice Rise in West ...

A robotic expedition beneath Antarctica's Filchner Ice Shelf has revealed what researchers describe as an 'underwater city' ...

In Antarctica, two giant rifts, known as Chasm 1 and Halloween Crack, split across the Brunt Ice Shelf. The implications of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2022, an international team of scientists sent a 20-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named "Ran" to traverse the ...

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, ...

Scientists may be able to reliably forecast Antarctic ice loss through the middle of this century, offering governments a ...

Scientists aboard the Polarstern stumbled upon 60 million icefish nests beneath Antarctica's Filchner Ice Shelf which is the ...

For years, climate models warned that warm deep water around Antarctica could edge closer to the continent's icy fringe. Now the ocean itself appears to be confirming it. A decades-long analysis of ...

A tube of mud can look like nothing special at first. Pull it from half a kilometer under Antarctic ice, though, and every smear starts to read like a diary. That is what an international team brought ...

Thirty million years separate the freezing of Antarctica from the glaciation of the Arctic, and for decades that gap made ...