Scientists using ice-breaking ships and underwater robots have found the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate and could be on an irreversible path to collapse, ...
Among those findings was the discovery of water ice and frozen organic compounds at Mercury's north pole and that volcanism played a major role in shaping the planet's surface. Venus is the second ...
New data from the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter suggests a massive deposit called the Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF) holds enough water ice to cover the entire planet in an ocean ...
Melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising the sea to levels dangerous to low-lying islands, but the wider effects could be even more serious The death of an American tourist when a wall of ice ...
Scientists at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are hoping to develop a fleet of these robots some day, to help better understand ice shelf melt rates. (U.S. Navy/Scott Barnes) Just below ...
Ice may look safe for a game of pick-up hockey on the lake, but as a new study out of York University found, looks can be deceiving. Warming winters are not only affecting ice thickness and timing ...