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

A small robotic float, lost for nearly nine months beneath Antarctica’s thick ice, has unexpectedly resurfaced—carrying valuable ocean data from regions never previously explored. The robot, an Argo ...

Ultimately, researchers determined that prior climate models omitted key features and underestimated the extent to which warm ...

In 2022, an international team of scientists sent a 20-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named “Ran” to traverse the never-explored region beneath the Dotson Ice Shelf in West Antarctica.

In the past, when West Antarctica melted, there was a rapid uptick in onshore geological activity in the area.

Antarctica holds so much frozen water that if it vanished overnight, the shape of the planet’s coasts, climate and oceans ...

A submarine was exploring underwater structures in Antarctica when it mysteriously went missing without explanation ...

A tiny robot explorer traversed the vast, frigid waters of Antarctica—even diving under the ice at one point. After miraculously surviving all that, the robot brought back souvenirs for scientists. In ...

Though ice sheet melting is widely talked of and debated, there is limited knowledge about what happens after the period of ...

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet covers some 760,000 square miles and is up to 1.2 miles thick. If it were to ever melt away entirely, it would add 10 feet to global sea levels. Even considering how ...