Water frozen in the depths of space has long been considered a shapeless, frozen fog. For decades, scientists believed it formed without structure, too cold and still to grow orderly crystals. But a ...

When you step onto an icy sidewalk or push off on skis, the surface can seem to vanish beneath you. For more than a century, scientists have debated why ice stays slippery, even well below freezing.

New research suggests that amino acids, the fundamental components of life, may have arrived on Earth carried by interstellar ...

A 2025 satellite image shows a series of ghostly ice swirls sculpted on the surface of Lake Michigan by strong winds during ...

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

Bad weather has postponed attempts to set up camp on the Thwaites Glacier. So researchers got onto the sea ice and met a ...

Part of Pine Island Glacier collapsed several years ago, forming an unstable inlet where no ship had sailed. Until now.

After a stretch of unseasonably warm weather across Colorado, a winter attraction in Summit County has been walking a careful line between art and survival. Just off I-70 in Silverthorne, the Ice ...

HARBIN, China (AP) — Each January, an odd and beautiful thing happens in the frigid northeastern Chinese city of Harbin. Some would argue that the place, the capital of Heilongjiang province, has ...

For hundreds of years Antarctica has proved a bewildering and enticing place for adventurers, explorers, and scientists. Every year experts head to the frozen region in an attempt to learn more about ...

Mississippi shul arson suspect confesses, calls congregation ‘synagogue of Satan’ * Knesset advances bill putting police ...