Researchers found tiny amber pieces in Antarctica’s seafloor. The discovery proves the continent once had forests.

For decades, theories have claimed that ancient alien bases lie buried beneath deserts, mountains, and oceans around the ...

The ice caps which cover our planet's poles are key to understanding global weather patterns and changing climate. But we still don't have a complete understanding of how they work, and what goes on ...

Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers report in Nature Geoscience. The team used radio echo sounding, a technique ...

Beneath the thick ice of East Antarctica lies a hidden world—untouched for over 34 million years. This frozen expanse, more than 10 million square kilometers wide, has long concealed a forgotten ...

Between 800,000 and 430,000 years ago, Earth went through a series of fairly gentle warm-ups that scientists are now calling ...