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

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

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

For years, the BAS has been studying the bedrock beneath Antarctica's thick ice using advanced radar, sound waves, and gravity mapping techniques.

Antarctica’s total ice volume is now estimated at 27.17 million cubic kilometers (6.52 million cubic miles). The ice sheet ...

A calving iceberg exposed a region that never before had been seen by human eyes, revealing a vibrant, thriving ecosystem ...

The place thought to have had the thickest overlying ice was Astrolabe Basin, in Adélie Land, but a reinterpretation of data ...

Bedmap3 is the third attempt to draw a picture of Antarctica’s rock bed since 2001. The latest effort has 82million data points on 500m of grid spacing and previous gaps of knowledge have been ...

The team realized that some of these Antarctic species had never seen humans before, especially the penguins they met.

A new detailed map of Antarctica is set to significantly improve predictions of how ice flows and melts in response to climate change,  say the scientists behind the project.  The map, called Bedmap3, ...