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

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 ...

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

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

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

Antarctica's Blood Falls were first observed by Australian geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor during the Terra Nova expedition in 1911.

Gravity feels reliable — stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition.In truth, the strength of gravity ...

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.

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

A squad of graduate students aboard the icebreaker Araon is getting a crash course in the slow and physical work of ocean exploration.

A bright red waterfall bursting from beneath the Taylor Glacier in East Antarctica lies right in the middle of one of the ...

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