Researchers recently performed the first scientific test of sea ice thickening in the field, but there remains a big question ...

The rhythmic expansion and contraction of Antarctic sea ice is like a heartbeat. But lately, there's been a skip in the beat. During each of the last two summers, the ice around Antarctica has ...

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If you find yourself on an ice planet, either something has gone wrong, or it’s gone horribly wrong. Science fiction stories are littered with frost-covered globes, and they usually break down into ...

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A strange type of ice thought to dwell deep in the oceans of alien planets has finally been proven to exist. For the first time, researchers have directly observed a sort of hybrid phase of water ...

Freezing water with salt or other impurities yields ice that is easier to loosen from a surface, according to a new study. By Katrina Miller What’s the worst part of winter? The perpetual shoveling of ...

Last July, glaciologist Derek Mueller made his fourteenth annual quest to gather samples from Milne Fjord, a research station on the coastal margin of the “Last Ice Area”— a 400,000-square-mile region ...