The Antarctic mystery was solved following "a serendipitous alignment of observations," the researchers said.

The geoid (the surface of equal gravitational potential of a hypothetical ocean at rest) serves as the classical reference ...

Antarctica sits above the strongest negative gravity anomaly on Earth, a region where the planet’s gravitational pull dips so ...

Antarctic glacier bleeds red water, and scientists reveal hidden pressure beneath the mysterious millennial ice.

The simulations showed that the gravity hole was initially much less pronounced. Between roughly 50 million and 30 million years ago, however, it intensified significantly. This period coincides with ...

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antarctica’s vast ice sheet conceals a world of mysteries, from ancient river-carved landscapes to unexplained radio pulses. Cover ...

University of Chicago researchers have begun examining data collected by a device transported by a NASA balloon that flew ...

After 66 years beneath Antarctic ice, the remains of British meteorologist Dennis Bell have been recovered, as retreating glaciers reveal a frozen chapter of history.

This is a snapshot taken from the Concordia Station, a scientific research facility in Antarctica managed by the European Space Agency (ESA). But why does ...

Earth's past, present and future come together here on the northern peninsula of Antarctica, the wildest, most desolate and mysterious of its continents. Clues to answering humanity's most basic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paleontologists have found the first complete skull of a controversial prehistoric bird. Known as Vegavis iaai, the bird thrived ...