Even today, vast areas of Antarctica remain unexplored. Despite technological advancements, accessing some regions of the ice-clad landscape is utterly challenging as less than a third of the ...

Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have discovered microplastics in the snow near some of Antarctica's deep field camps. This is the first time these tiny pieces of plastic ...

Credit: Supplied/Australian Antarctic Program The Denman Glacier ... collecting tonnes of rock and ice-core samples from this largely unexplored region. Their research aims to shed light on ...

unknown underwater structures that challenge current understanding of the region. “Ran”: an autonomous submarine uncovering Antarctica’s secrets The lost vehicle, known as “Ran,” was the ...

The meteorites were discovered during the Belgian Antarctic Research Expedition ... a mountain range that had been unexplored by Belgian scientists since the 1960s. The Belgica Mountains were ...

Floating ice shelves represent the greatest unexplored habitat in the Southern Ocean. They cover more that 1.5 million km2 of the Antarctic continental ... currents in the region, the researchers ...

Richard Moore of NASA undergoes some close-quarter flying in the wake of a DC8 plane to assess for the first time the unexplored quantity of soot emitted from jet engines This leads to the ...