NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite has reached an extraordinary milestone—2 trillion laser pulses fired from orbit. Since its launch ...

Stanford researchers have integrated machine learning with high-resolution satellite and aerial observations to analyze the ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

A groundbreaking new map,Bedmap3, has provided the most detailed view yet of the hidden landscape beneath Antarctica’s ice ...

Sometimes sleep takes priority over cool celestial events. Luckily, you can catch a partial solar eclipse this month and a ...

A new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed.

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released the most detailed map yet of what Antarctica looks like when you strip away ...

The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international ...

But ice shelves are also hiding secrets underneath the ocean's surface. A team of international scientists used a submersible to map the underside of Antarctic ice, and the presence of dips, swirls, ...

The shrinking of polar sea ice threatens species such as Emperor Penguin, pictured here in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica (Steve Copsey). However, rising global temperatures are causing these masses to ...

According to chief producer Hiroyuki Sakamoto, producer and chief director Ryosuke Horii, and director Yasuaki Uehara, the development team was constantly worried about the game’s ocean maps and naval ...

ice shelves on the coastal waters are a major control on the rate of loss of land-based ice from the Antarctic continent. Warm ocean water penetrating below the ice shelves of the West Antarctic ice ...