Picture Antarctica not as a smooth, frozen plain, but as a rugged world of mountains, valleys, and deep channels buried beneath kilometers of ice. That unseen landscape is now coming into focus.

Far beneath the creaking surface of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, scientists have uncovered a granite body roughly 60 miles ...

Ancient shoreline features hint that water on Mars once formed a vast ocean.

Underneath the Antarctic ice, researchers found a massive, preserved landscape of river valleys and hills that has been ...

Far below the frozen surface of Antarctica, scientists are uncovering a landscape that looks less like a featureless ice cap and more like a buried continent, complete with mountains, valleys, rivers ...

New research reveals that Central Asia’s rugged terrain was molded by the vanished Tethys Ocean, millions of years before the Himalayas even rose.

The history of the planet and the civilizations that have lived on it are among life’s greatest mysteries.People have roamed ...

Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf is a hidden ocean – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea.

New Antarctica map reveals a landscape of hidden valleys and channels beneath ice, improving sea-level rise and ice flow ...

Generations of Times journalists have journeyed there with scientists. Their coverage traces humankind’s changing ...

Scientists have discovered a 300-year-old giant black coral off New Zealand. Its massive size and age reveal hidden deep-sea ...