A team of geophysicists has traced the origins of Earth’s most extreme gravitational anomaly, a vast depression beneath ...

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According to NASA, Lake Untersee is an underground body of water resting in the snow-capped peaks of East Antarctica. Hidden ...

The Thwaites Glacier, one of Antarctica’s most unstable ice masses, is edging closer to a point of no return, according to ...

NASA satellites detected a phytoplankton bloom around Antarctic iceberg A-23A as it melted, showing how icebergs can fertilize the ocean.

A team of scientists have found a massive "gravity hole" in the historically mysterious and frozen continent of Antarctica. The question is, what is causing it?

Antarctica has lost enough ice over the last 30 years to cover the City of Los Angeles area 10 times over, according to new ...

After analyzing three decades of satellite radar data, scientists have created the first continent-wide record of Antarctic ...

A UC Irvine-led study used international and commercial satellites to measure glaciers and found more than three-quarters of Antarctica’s coast-reaching glaciers to be stable, with the other quarter ...

A new study shows Antarctica’s biggest ice losses are happening at a few weak coastal gateways where glaciers are retreating inland.

Antarctic sea ice coverage has likely rebounded this year, coming closer to its annual summer average after four years of extreme lows, US scientists said Monday.