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

For the first time, scientists have mapped Antarctica’sburied landscape in high resolution beneath the continent’s thick ice ...

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

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.

Low clouds have lifted long enough for helicopters to ferry scientists and their gear to a fast-melting glacier on the edge of Antarctica.

Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf is a hidden ocean – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea.