Sometimes, discoveries are made by mistake. Recently, NASA ended up finding a 60-year-old structure hidden under the ice in ...

First created during the Cold War, Project Iceworm saw the US plan to store hundreds of ballistic missiles in a system of ...

For most of the year, Greenland is covered in ice and snow and its locals retreat indoors. But for three short months beginning in June, everyone heads outside — day and ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of accessing mineral wealth buried in the permafrost and opening new trade routes ...

NASA scientists in Greenland took an unprecedented look at Cold War history when surveys found an abandoned "city under the ice.". In April, two scientists surveying the Greenland Ice Sheet found ...

Known as 'the city under the ice,' Camp Century was built in 1959. It consists of 21 tunnels drilled just below the surface of the Greenland ice sheet, spanning a total length of 9,800 feet.

NASA scientists have rediscovered an abandoned U.S. nuclear base buried beneath Greenland's ice sheet since the Cold War. During a research flight over the Arctic Circle last spring, the team ...

The US nuclear base hidden under Greenland’s ice for decades. Sune Engel Rasmussen, The Wall Street Journal 6 min read 14 May 2025, 01:59 PM IST. A hatch that served as an ...

The US nuclear base hidden under Greenland’s ice for decades. The underground site, which was designed to store 600 medium-range ballistic missiles during the Cold War, reveals the extent of US ...

Greenland's formidable ice was also the biggest problem for a legendary Cold War-era top secret project — a tunnel city under the ice designed to store hundreds of nuclear missiles within firing ...

These NASA scientists stumbled upon a “city under the ice” in Greenland, decades after it was abandoned during the Cold War. Carlos Osorio. Maite Knorr-Evans twitter. About the author.