The Doomsday Glacier is at the center of a striking new discovery hidden deep under Antarctica’s frozen edge. For the first time, scientists have found hundreds of special earthquakes at some of the ...

Antarctica is often seen as frozen, silent, and unchanging, with sharp winds, cold waters, and endless ice. But even this ...

Weathered rocks sitting above the ice hold iron concentrations up to ten times higher than earlier reports from elsewhere in ...

Underneath Antarctica’s endless sheets of ice lies a hidden world of deep valleys, towering peaks, and sprawling plains. For decades, scientists have attempted to chart this buried landscape, knowing ...

In the remote and hostile realm of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, powerful winds known as low-level jets (LLJs) race over its coastal regions, including both the Thwaites and Pine Island ...

Antarctica is famous for its frigid temperatures, desolate landscape, penguins, and the predators who eat them. That’s what it looks like from the surface, but there are hidden organisms and ...

When you first see Antarctica on a globe, it looks like a smooth sheet of ice pressed against the bottom of the planet. But the rugged continent buried underneath is filled with sights that no one has ...