A new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed.

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

The world's biggest iceberg appears to have run aground roughly 70 kilometres from a remote Antarctic island, potentially ...

The nearly one-trillion-tonne block of ice, known as A23a, has grounded on the continental shelf off South Georgia island ...

As the planet warms, Antarctica's ice sheet is melting and contributing to sea-level rise around the globe. Antarctica holds ...

The most detailed map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international scientists led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Known as Bedmap3 ...

The "mega-berg," as some call it, is a sprawling ice sheet that ... like a "towering wall emerging from the ocean, stretching from horizon to horizon," said British Antarctic Survey oceanographer ...

which combines the amount of sea ice present in the Arctic and Antarctic, hit a new low in early February and remained below the previous record from 2023 for the rest of the month. In particular ...

The map includes important revisions, including that Antarctica's thickest overlying ice is at a different part of Australia’s Antarctic Territory than previously thought. New data suggests it's ...

In a March Science paper, Stanford researchers used machine learning to analyze high-resolution remote-sensing data of Antarctic ice movements for the first time. Their findings uncover key ...