Hidden beneath the thick, frozen skin of East Antarctica lies a surprising discovery—ancient river-carved landscapes that may ...

Ancient river landscapes buried beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet have been uncovered by radar, revealing vast, flat ...

Antarctica is not just a land of ice and penguins; it's a place of extraordinary, mysterious discoveries that continue to ...

Researchers found ancient river-carved plains beneath East Antarctica that may help slow ice loss and improve sea-level rise ...

Large flat surfaces carved by ancient rivers deep beneath the East Antarctica are influencing how ice flows across the ...

An ancient landscape hidden under the East Antarctic ice sheet for at least 14 million years has been revealed with the help of satellite data and planes equipped with ice-penetrating radar.

Antarctica's patterns of stark seasonal changes, with months of darkness followed by a summer of 24-hour daylight, prompted ...

At the bottom of the world lies a region as magnificent as it is misunderstood: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Harsh, ...

Antarctica: Landscape of ice. ... The ice sheet sitting atop Antarctica is so vast, up to 3 miles (5 km) thick in some places, that it pushes Earth's crust thousands of feet down.

In order to see Antarctica's resident land animals, you have to have a microscope. And one look reveals an outlandish cast of characters more suited to Lewis Carroll's fiction than a Disney movie ...