Antarctica is one of only two places on the planet almost completely covered by ice sheets, with Greenland being the other. The Antarctic ice sheet covers about 98% of the continent's land mass ...

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence suggests the subglacial hole is an impact crater measuring 315 miles across.

The frigid ice-mass on the bottom of ... “What they say about people in Antarctica is that you shake the Earth and all the weird people fall out and land there,” Byron Adams, a Brigham Young ...

A new study found parts of Antartica could pass a tipping point for mass ice sheet losses as soon as 2050 – pushing sea ...

Earlier surveys put this in the Astrolabe Basin, in Adélie Land. However ... sense the landscape of the rock bed under Antarctica's ice. Subtracting this topography from the shape and ...

Bulges might appear when lakes under the ice sheet fill, or disappear when they empty. More than 140 active subglacial lakes have been identified beneath Antarctica ... ice sheet mass loss becomes ...