Scientists have discovered 85 new active subglacial lakes beneath Antarctica, bringing the total to 231. These lakes fill, drain, and shift...

A startling red waterfall, Blood Falls, flows in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys. Scientists have uncovered its secret. The crimson color ...

Antarctica's Blood Falls, a striking red cascade from the Taylor Glacier, is not blood but ancient, iron-rich water. Trapped for millions o...

China on Saturday launched its 42nd Antarctic expedition to conduct deep drilling experiments aimed at studying the continent’s evolution a...

Scientists have made remarkable discoveries beneath Antarctica's million-year-old ice, revealing ancient landscapes, subglacial lakes teemi...

Over the past two years, there has been a lot of debate over the presence of “liquid water” on Mars. On September 28, a study in ‘Nature’ c...

Washington, Feb 13 (IANS) Researchers have used data from the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 satellite to identify a sudden drainage of ...

The glacier sped up by about 10 per cent during that time, showing that the glacier's long-term movement is fairly oblivious to trickles at...

The world's largest canyon - over 1,000 kilometre long and up to one kilometre deep - may lie under the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists inc...

In a major breakthrough, scientists have finally proved that life exists in a lake buried under half a mile (800 meters) of ice on the west...