Scientists have long known more about the surfaces of some other worlds than what lies beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet, which ...

Scientists believe the map could shed light on how Antarctica's vast ice sheet will respond to climate change.

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released an interactive map of Antarctica. It combines information on coastlines and contours and is available to everyone from tourists to researchers to the ...

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.

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 ...

A groundbreaking study has unveiled Antarctica's hidden, rugged topography beneath its ice sheet, revealing mountains, ...

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Researchers have published the most complete map of Antarctica’s subglacial bedrock using Ice Flow Perturbation Analysis (IFPA), revealing thousands of unseen hills and ridges in the Maud Subglacial ...

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