A new generation of ice-penetrating maps has turned the blank white of Antarctica into a richly contoured world of mountains, valleys, rivers and lakes. For the first time, scientists can trace this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An undated handout image of a map illustrating the subglacial landscape of mountain ranges, deep canyons and wide valleys, as well ...

An autonomous submarine named Ran discovers strange structures under the Dotson Ice Shelf in Antarctica, before mysteriously ...

Picture Antarctica not as a smooth, frozen plain, but as a rugged world of mountains, valleys, and deep channels buried beneath kilometers of ice. That unseen landscape is now coming into focus.

In 2022, an international team of scientists sent a 20-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named “Ran” to traverse ...

What looked like an iceberg turns out to be an undiscovered Antarctic island, surprising scientists and reshaping maps of the ...

Ten years ago, Antarctica's sea ice suddenly and dramatically declined. Scientists now blame a "very violent release" of deep ...

Ching-Yao Lai, an assistant professor of geophysics at Stanford University, works to advance scientific understanding of ice ...

If we keep burning fossil fuels indefinitely, global warming will eventually melt all the ice at the poles and on ...

An undated handout image of a map illustrating the subglacial landscape of mountain ranges, deep canyons and wide valleys, as well as tens of thousands of smaller hills and valleys, with comparative ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet blanketing Antarctica, uncovering an exuberant landscape of mountains, canyons, ...