Antarctica's nearest neighbour is the tip of South America, although this is still around 1,000km away. It would take over two days to reach it by boat. The Geographic South Pole is the most ...

Underneath Antarctica’s endless sheets of ice lies a hidden world of deep valleys, towering peaks, and sprawling plains. For ...

Antarctica isn’t a floating chunk of ice like the Arctic. Beneath its frozen surface sits a solid continent of mountains, ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...

The researchers and base personnel remain in Antarctica for approximately 15 months working through the cold and dark winter ...

My tent is lashed between two boulders in a desolate wilderness deep in the Wohlthat Mountains of Antarctica ... dominates the continent’s interior. Geography and gravity combine here to ...

A hidden ecosystem of giant sea spiders, octopuses, and other stunning sea creatures shows how life can flourish even when sealed off from the surface by a thick layer of ice.

The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international ...

In this week’s Science for All newsletter, Priyali Prakash explains what is Bedmap3, the most comprehensive map yet of the ...