Antarctica is famous for its frigid temperatures, desolate landscape, penguins, and the predators who eat them. That’s what it looks like from the surface, but there are hidden organisms and ...

Research scientists developing a climate record by studying aging layers of Antarctic ice discovered that the deepest layer ...

Unveiling a new chapter in the understanding of Antarctica’s hidden waterways, scientists have discovered 85 ‘active’ lakes buried beneath the continent’s icy exterior. This groundbreaking discovery ...

China on Saturday launched its 42nd Antarctic expedition to conduct deep drilling experiments aimed at studying the ...

UC Santa Cruz researchers are among the leaders of a major Antarctic research project in which scientists will drill through a half-mile of ice to penetrate subglacial Lake Whillans and study hidden ...

China's 42nd Antarctic expedition team is preparing to, for the first time, drill into a subglacial lake buried over 3,600 meters deep beneath the ice cap in Antarctica.During the expedition, the team ...

Roughly 2,000 miles south of New Zealand's southernmost point lies Lake Enigma, an aptly named body of water tucked into coastal Antarctica. The lake's ice cover is deeper than the lake itself: ...

No one expected this.

During this expedition, a suite of new technologies will be deployed and tested in the icy wilderness of the Antarctic. Core hardware for validation includes China's independently developed and ...

China's 42nd Antarctic expedition team set sail from Shanghai on Saturday. "During this expedition, China plans, for the ...