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 ...

Underneath miles-deep ice sheets covering Antarctica lies the largest ... then unleashed a flow of molten rock beneath the mountains. As that molten layer became hotter and thicker, the mountains ...

Antarctica is the world's great cooling unit. This vital part of Earth's climate system is largely powered by the annual ...

The mysterious ‘ghost mountains’ – buried beneath kilometres of Antarctic ice – have puzzled scientists for decades.

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

Rothera runway is made of all natural materials, all sourced from Antarctica. Crushed rock is used in place of ... "but then you have a layer of ice that needs to be left untouched.

The European Space agency Copernicus Sentinel satellite detected a giant hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica, as part of the EU's Environmental monitoring program. The hole which scientists ...

For Antarctic wildlife, exposure to the Sun's damaging rays has increased in recent years, scientists say. A hole in the ozone layer - the protective barrier of gas in the upper atmosphere - now ...

Because they've been preserved by a deep layer of ice ... Further analysis of these rock samples will help reconstruct the hidden architecture of East Antarctica. Antarctica remains a continent ...