A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might ...

Scientists believe the map could shed light on how Antarctica's vast ice sheet will respond to climate change.

Picture Antarctica not as a smooth, frozen plain, but as a rugged world of mountains, valleys, and deep channels buried ...

A new generation of ice-penetrating maps has turned the blank white of Antarctica into a richly contoured world of mountains, valleys, rivers and lakes. For the first time, scientists can trace this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet ...

When you first see Antarctica on a globe, it looks like a smooth sheet of ice pressed against the bottom of the planet. But the rugged continent buried underneath is filled with sights that no one has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An undated handout image of a map illustrating the subglacial landscape of mountain ranges, deep canyons and wide valleys, as well ...