NASA's SWOT satellite revealed unseen ocean depths, mapping seafloor features that shape life, currents, and tectonics. From ...

the ice sheet in West Antarctica was smaller than it is today. That allowed seawater to deposit nutrients in what is now a lake bed buried under hundreds of meters of ice. This study is among the ...

Opening a scientific frontier miles under the Antarctic ice, Russian experts drilled down and finally reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake, an achievement the mission chief likened to ...

buried under a 15-meter-deep lake located under 3,500 feet of Antarctica ice. The layered samples are the first of their kind collected on the massive continent. It took researchers two seasons to ...

Antarctica may be hiding a large lake under its ice – second only to Lake Vostok in size ­– according to data presented at the European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna this week.

In January 2013, researchers pulled the first water samples from a dark, frigid lake sealed beneath the ... hunt for evidence of life wedged under the Antarctic ice. Rivers and more than 400 ...

Researchers exploring a buried Antarctic lake "twice the size of Manhattan ... the perfectly preserved skeletal remains of tiny animals trapped under about a half-mile of ice, the journal Nature ...

A team of British engineers is set to begin a journey to a lake hidden beneath nearly 2 miles of Antarctic ice. The explorers depart next week for Antarctica on the first stage of an ambitious ...

OSLO (Reuters) – A British plan to drill into a sunless lake deep under Antarctica’s ice in December could show the risks of quicker sea level rise caused by climate change, scientists said on ...

The lake under the Antarctic ice is uniquely important precisely because it is so pristine, but all that could be lost forever if the tiniest particle of outside matter is allowed in when the ...

Researchers say a massive lake may lie under the surface of Antarctica's ice sheet, possibly harboring life forms that have spent millions of years in isolation. Looking at satellite images ...