New studies show how algae grows on ice and snow, creating “dark zones” that exacerbate melting in the consequential region.

For most of Earth's history, it was a hot, humid greenhouse — until something changed. This video uncovers the science behind ...

Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it ...

Just as the Moon's gravity drives the oceans' tides, Mars's gravity is now understood to play a significant role in shaping ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

Polygon has rounded up the best icy sci-fi planets from our favorite video games, movies, television, and books ...

A new study shows the monument’s most exotic stones did not arrive by chance but were instead deliberately selected and ...

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean’s powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic despite extensive ice cover ...

New Curtin University research has delivered the strongest scientific evidence yet that people – not glaciers – transported ...

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

Hydrogen cyanide, a toxic chemical, may have helped spark the chemistry that led to life. When frozen, it forms crystals with highly reactive surfaces that can drive unusual chemical reactions, even ...