A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice removed.

Antarctica is one of only two places ... and even researchers crossing the ice sheet on dog sleds. The map gives us a remarkably clear view of the bed, including frozen mountains and canyons.

As the name Bedmap3 implies, this is the third map of Antarctica produced by a group ... until it is refrozen to the ice sheet base," she said. Want more health and science stories in your inbox?

While the Statue of Liberty may not be submerged, low-lying places like Ellis Island could be underwater. By 2100, sea-level ...

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

Bulges might appear when lakes under the ice sheet fill, or disappear when they empty. More than 140 active subglacial lakes have been identified beneath Antarctica over the past two decades.

Microbial communities feeding on geothermal methane seeps beneath the Antarctic ice sheet could resemble life-supporting ...

As autumn settled over Antarctica, sea ice began its seasonal return, with NASA capturing striking images of new growth in ...

So could this map also be a chilling look at Antarctica’s future under a worst-case scenario? This group of scientists did not go that far, but they did discover that those ice sheets are ...

Bulges might appear when lakes under the ice sheet fill, or disappear when they empty. More than 140 active subglacial lakes have been identified beneath Antarctica over the past two decades.