Earth’s ice caps exist due to a rare combination of cooling processes. Without these, Earth would likely remain warm and ...

For most of its history, Earth has existed in a greenhouse state—warm, ice-free, and rich in atmospheric carbon dioxide. The ...

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

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

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

The vast landmass is melting quickly due to climate change, and may rapidly cause the complete loss of the island's ice.

Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation ...

Declassified documents have revealed the top secret behind a hidden “city” that was found buried deep beneath a vast sheet of ...

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 ...

Greenland’s Ice Sheet is cracking open at the seams, literally falling apart at speeds indicative of the brutal and ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...