A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might ...

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 ...

Antarctica has long looked like a blank white smear on world maps, but new ultra detailed surveys are turning that blankness into a rugged landscape of buried mountains, deep valleys and secret mega ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An undated handout image of a map illustrating the subglacial landscape of mountain ranges, deep canyons and wide valleys, as well ...

If the ice blanketing Antarctica were to vanish, the world’s shorelines would be redrawn so radically that some countries would simply cease to exist. Entire coastal megacities would be abandoned, new ...

This early exploration opened the door to centuries of scientific study and adventure in one of the world’s last great ...