Since the discovery 50 years ago of subglacial lakes in Antarctica—some of the least accessible geological features on Earth—scientists have attempted to extract lake bed sediment to learn about the ...

A graphic shows the location of Lake Vostok and the depth of the subglacial body of water. By Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor: Reports this week confirm that Russian scientists have penetrated a ...

Scientists have identified 85 previously unknown lakes hidden beneath Antarctica's ice using a decade's worth of satellite data. The newfound lakes are "active," meaning they periodically drain and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive subglacial flood punched its way through the Greenland Ice Sheet in 2014, but it’s only now that scientists have pieced ...

Scientists have discovered 85 new active subglacial lakes beneath Antarctica, bringing the total to 231. These lakes fill, drain, and shift, acting as a hidden plumbing system that lubricates ice flow ...

UC Santa Cruz researchers are among the leaders of a major Antarctic research project in which scientists will drill through a half-mile of ice to penetrate subglacial Lake Whillans and study hidden ...

Selected images from the Lake Vostok B-roll package. NSF-supported scientists, including John Priscu of Montana State University, dressed in cold-weather clothing, examine a piece of ice core taken ...

TAMPA, Fla. (May 1, 2023) – Subglacial lakes that never see the light of day are among the least accessible frontiers of science, brimming with more tales yet untold than even the planets of our solar ...

Up to twice the amount of subglacial water that was originally predicted might be draining into the ocean—potentially increasing glacial melt, sea level rise, and biological disturbances. The world's ...

A study suggests the presence of liquid water and recent geothermal activity under the southern polar cap of Mars—an environment favorable to life. In a study published in the journal Nature Astronomy ...

New evidence has emerged in the debate about whether there’s liquid water on Mars. In a study led by the University of Cambridge, scientists examined the topology of Martian ice sheets and found ...