During a routine exploration of the Antarctic beneath the ice, originally linked to an expedition searching for the wreck of the Endurance, the ship, researchers were surprised to observe patterned ...

In 2022, an international team of scientists sent a 20-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named “Ran” to traverse ...

Scientists have confirmed an extensive hidden liquid water network deep beneath the Antarctic ice sheet — a vast subglacial ...

An autonomous submarine named Ran discovers strange structures under the Dotson Ice Shelf in Antarctica, before mysteriously ...

Scientists dive beneath Antarctic ice to study unique marine life and track the impact of climate change on fragile ...

The eerie structures imaged by Ran are the result of melting that's undercutting the Dotson shelf, creating an unstable ...

A tube of mud can look like nothing special at first. Pull it from half a kilometer under Antarctic ice, though, and every smear starts to read like a diary. That is what an international team brought ...

Nearly 90 percent of Antarctica is buried under ice that averages about 1.3 miles or 2.2 kilometers thick. In some areas, the ice stacks up to nearly 3 miles or 4.8 kilometers deep. For years, ...

Below the Antarctic ice lies a treasure trove of minerals, including copper, iron, gold, silver, platinum and cobalt. Warming temperatures due to climate change could unearth these minerals and, in ...

Antarctica’s icy ecosystems reveal how frozen landscapes can sustain odd forms of life. Set in Antarctica’s Dry Valleys, Antarctica’s glacial and icy ecosystems reveal how frozen landscapes can ...