By removing its massive amount of ice, the map reveals a secret side of Antarctica. As it turns out, the continent has more ice attached to the below-sea-level rock bed than previously thought.

An icy new map of Antarctica could help direct the search for alien life The Bedmap3 survey is bringing the polar continent into focus, which could help detect life on icy moons ...

The new map comes as Antarctica is losing ice mass at an average rate of about 150 billion tons per year.

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.

For all of human history, Antarctica has been ice-covered and desolate. Now, a new model shows the hidden continent beneath that ice.

Antarctica is in the grip of some of the world's fastest climate change. Its melting ice could contribute up to 5 meters of sea-level rise. Where the ice disappears, it leaves barren ground behind.

Newsweek has created a map that lays bare the isolation of a South African research base in Antarctica where a team is reportedly trapped with a colleague who has become violent.

Have you ever wondered what Antarctica might look like without ice? Now, a new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed ...

Satellite photos show emperor penguins in one region of Antarctica declined 22% in the past 15 years.

The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international scientists led from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).