Members of China's 41st Antarctic expedition team unload supplies in Antarctica, Dec. 9, 2024. Currently on China's 41st ...

Scientists have discovered a rare deep-sea predator beneath the ice of Antarctica. Stygiomedusa gigantea, known as the giant ...

There's an entire mountain range as big as the European Alps completely hidden under Antarctica's ice that no one has ever ...

From saline basins to remote deserts, the deepest points on each continent reveal a fascinating interplay of geology, climate ...

Antarctica hides a world that’s both fascinating and a little eerie: entire ecosystems untouched by humans and rivers that ...

In addition to low-lying valleys, covered lakes, and bizarre sub-glacial rivers, the Antarctic ice is also hiding massive mountain ranges. The Gamburtsev Mountains are roughly equivalent in scale to ...

Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and ...

The amount of heat flowing toward the base of the West Antarctic ice sheet from geothermal sources deep within the Earth is surprisingly ... to measure temperatures in sediments below Subglacial Lake ...

Bell is a research professor at Columbia University who has led 10 expeditions to Antarctica and Greenland in part to study deep subglacial ... is already working on lake databases and ...

includes volcanic giants such as Mount Erebus and its iconic lava lake. But at least 100 less conspicuous volcanoes dot Antarctica, with many clustered along its western coast. Some of those ...

an aptly named body of water tucked into coastal Antarctica. The lake's ice cover is deeper than the lake itself: Although its liquid water is about 39 feet deep, 44 feet of ice sits on top ...

Antarctica's hidden wonders include warm caves beneath Mount Erebus, the world's largest fish nursery in the Weddell Sea, and a prehistoric subglacial lake. A deep ocean trench, ice-dwelling ...