Caption View down an ultra-clean hot water borehole drilled into Mercer Subglacial Lake, a freshwater lake located more than 1000 metres beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The lake is hydrologically ...

Work in Japan and Australia has revealed that a deep-ocean current is carrying frigid water rapidly northward from Antarctica along the edge of a giant underwater plateau. Understanding such ...

Which are the most incredible discoveries in Antarctica? This isolated continent is rarely visited, but still holds a lot of ...

Unfavourable atmospheric conditions make it challenging to observe Antarctica from space. Nevertheless, while visualisations have portrayed the frosty continent as seemingly endless expanses of ...