Deep under the Antarctic ice, instruments built to catch ghostly particles have stumbled on something stranger than anyone expected: radio signals that appear to rise from below the frozen continent, ...

Instruments flying more than 18 miles (29 kilometers) above Antarctica detected two unexplainable radio pulses coming from below the ice — and these signals seem to defy particle physics. Researchers ...

Why it's incredible: Evidence suggests it could be the greatest known impact crater on Earth. The Wilkes Land crater is a hole in the bedrock beneath East Antarctica's ice sheet measuring 315 miles ...

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Researchers detected mysterious radio waves in Antarctica that seem to defy the rules of particle physics. Now they're searching for a cause. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

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An abrupt change in Antarctica has caused the continent to gain ice. But this increase, documented in NASA satellite data, is a temporary anomaly rather than an indication that global warming has ...

"We still don't have an explanation for what those anomalies are." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A cosmic particle detector has ...

Ice Sheet Records Surprising Mass Gain Between 2021 and 2023, the Antarctic Ice Sheet gained mass at an average rate of ...