Up to 98 percent of Antarctica is caked in miles-thick ice sheets, some of which formed millions upon millions of years ago.

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

In a landmark study published in Science, researchers have unveiled a high-resolution map of the Antarctic bed. This study ...

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

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 ...

In a new study, researchers explained that less is known about the topography beneath the ice of Antarctica than any other ...

Scientists have completed the most detailed map of the land under the frozen ice sheet of Antarctica. This is the third version of this map, and is known as Bedmap3. It has incorporated data from ...

More than 9,300 feet above sea level on the Antarctic ice sheet, the ceremony unfolds on the first day of a new year. Sitting ...