When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

Simulations show that subsurface oceans on small moons may hit boiling conditions, potentially creating features like Miranda’s distinctive ridges.

High in Norway’s mountains, a lone hiker recently walked across a patch of retreating ice and stumbled onto a scatter of ...

As glaciers and ice sheets retreat, they are exposing objects, organisms, and landscapes that have been locked away for ...

Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re ...

This simple ice-fishing-style experiment helps explain the science behind winter lakes, no actual fishing pole required!

Some people swear by coffee grounds as an effective solution for melting winter ice on the, well, ground. But does science ...

Boat electrification could help minimize climate-warming emissions at sea, but projects are struggling to really take off, ...

As the winter season approaches, the likelihood of waking up to ice on your driveway or on the roads is on the rise. Ice melts are the most common solution to this problem, but it is good to know how ...

Researchers at KRISS observed water’s rapid freeze–melt cycles under ultrahigh pressure and discovered Ice XXI, the first new ...

As winter approaches, large swaths of the United States are eagerly awaiting their first big snowfalls of the season. As the ...