Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed map yet" of Antarctica's landscape beneath its blanket of ice, a ...

Never seen, perhaps, but that doesn't mean forever to remain unknown. For years, the British Antarctic Survey has been flying ...

It's common knowledge that Earth's southernmost continent, Antarctica ... rise to a new virtual map of the Antarctic continent, the most detailed look below the ice we've ever had.

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

Millions of years ago, the Antarctic continent was a lush jungle. Millions of years from now, it may be jungle again. But for all of human history, Antarctica has been ice-covered and desolate.

One notable discovery is that Antarctica’s thickest ice was found in an unnamed canyon in Wilkes Land. The ice there is more than 15,000 feet thick. Earlier maps placed the thickest ice in the ...

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers ...

Scientists have completed the most detailed map of the land under the frozen ice sheet of Antarctica. This is the third version of this map, and is known as Bedmap3. It has incorporated data from ...