As city crews continue inspecting homes and clearing ice after the major water main break in Southwest Detroit, residents are now dealing with dead vehicles frozen in place.

Australia’s sea surface temperatures were the warmest on record last year, according to a snapshot of the nation’s climate ...

When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great changes.

Arctic cyclones may be accelerating sea ice loss by breaking ice into smaller pieces and driving upwelling of warm water. A study links these storms to rapid ice depletion and suggests that tropopause ...

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...

As Erling Kagge relates in his thrilling book, The North Pole, the world’s northernmost point has been a lifelong and nearly ...

Astrophysicists have been grappling with the question of how water arrived on our young planet for decades. One of the ...

A new study led by a team of scientists from the University of Leeds has revealed that the cold conditions that have allowed ...

The project’s main test material involved tiny silica beads, which the researchers compared to “reflective sand.” The beads ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many complex processes working at once, according to new research.

Neutrinos are sometimes called “ghost particles,” because they are nearly weightless, rarely interact with any other matter, ...