Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up ...

Antarctica has lost nearly 5,000 square miles of "grounded ice" in 30 years, as warming ocean waters drive retreat in vulnerable regions, a new study finds.

A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might affect sea-level rise ...

A groundbreaking new map offers an unprecedented glimpse beneath the vast ice sheets of Antarctica, revealing a landscape that has been hidden for millions of years. This detailed visualization, a ...

A tiny seed is stuck between loose gravel and coarse sand. There is nothing else alive around it. All it can see is a wall of ice reaching 20 meters up into the sky. It is cold. Survival is hard ...

A new map reveals where Antarctica is retreating fast, exposing hidden hotspots of grounded ice loss and future sea level risks.

The mystery of ice-free Antarctica has intrigued scholars and enthusiasts alike, with ancient maps suggesting a time when the continent was free of ice. These maps, such as the Piri Reis map, have ...

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 ...

The eastern section of Antarctica is buried beneath a thick ice sheet. Some scientists simply assumed that under that cold mass there was nothing more than a “frozen tectonic block,” a somewhat ...

A video of a map depicting Earth’s continents surrounded by an Antarctic “ice wall” is a creative interpretation from an online art forum. Some posts on social media have shared it with claims it ...

Scientists using satellite data have now created the most detailed maps ever produced of the vast snow-covered Antarctic continent. The maps reveal unprecedented views of surface features that provide ...

WASHINGTON – A team of researchers from NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Science Foundation and the British Antarctic Survey unveiled a newly completed map of Antarctica today that is ...