A novel new technique has allowed scientists to see what's lurking miles beneath Antarctica's ice like never before.

Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.

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Conventional wisdom is that ice is slippery because it has a thin layer of water on top, but new research suggests something ...

On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples ...

Scientists on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth's ...

Scientists have created a new phase of ice that can form at room temperature. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature Materials, the new phase, dubbed XXI, requires extreme levels ...

In northwestern Greenland, researchers working on the GreenDrill project have cored through a 500-meter-thick ice dome. They ...

Strange grooves, swirling valleys, and hidden ice far from Mars’s poles reveal a surprisingly recent ice age, as new ESA ...

Winter means a lot of indoor time, and I've learned that science experiments are a lifesaver on those long, cold days. The best part? You don't need anything fancy. Baking soda, vinegar, food ...