An Australian research team deployed a robotic ocean probe in April 2024 to study Antarctica's hidden depths. The ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

The Antarctic seafloor is one of the last truly unseen places on Earth, and the machines we send into that darkness are ...

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...

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

Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from ...

Glacial earthquakes are rocking the Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica. Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake ...

The extent and speed of ice moving off the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica into the sea—an important dynamic for ...

Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water that attack the ice from below. These secretive currents, spinning in the ...

Our reporter sends a dispatch from the icebreaker Araon, currently on its way to Antarctica, about the scientists, their work ...

Deep beneath the massive sheet of ice that covers much of west Antarctica, scientists have discovered a mysterious chain of hidden lakes that may be causing ice streams to slip as they flow into the ...