meant salvaging a forgotten outpost in the Arctic. American reconnaissance aircraft later spotted a derelict Soviet drifting ice station, identified as NP9, after a pressure ridge had shattered its ice runway. Soviet officials announced the abandonment,...

Scientists probe Antarctica’s Blood Falls, the mysterious red water, revealing clues about ancient life trapped beneath the ice for millions of years. Red-colored runoff emerging from the base of Taylor Glacier in Antarctica has turned out to be more...

New evidence from deep within Uranus and Neptune suggests these distant ice giants may have formed in different parts of our solar system. Uranus and Neptune have long been considered the quintessential planetary twins of our solar system. Positioned...

frozen lowlands of what is now northeastern Siberia. It fed, as wolves do, on the flesh of large herbivores that roamed the Ice Age steppe. Shortly after its last meal, the pup died and was entombed in permafrost, its body sealed away from decay. That...

inadvertently acting as a sophisticated laboratory for astrobiologists. New research indicates that the plumes of salt-rich ice grains erupting from the moon’s hidden global ocean are not simply snapshots of the liquid water below, but are instead...

Researchers exploring beneath Antarctic ice have discovered hundreds of mysterious, carefully cleared circles, shedding new light on the deep-sea floor. During a 2019 mission to the Weddell Sea—an expedition primarily focused on the ill-fated search...

New York City’s massive skyline is slowly sinking, but ancient geological forces from the last ice age may be the surprising culprit behind the subsidence. New York City is not entirely grounded in solid rock. A significant portion of its five...

Just two weeks after launch, Europe’s Sentinel-3C satellite has returned its first high-resolution images of Earth’s oceans, ice, and landscapes. Just two weeks after its successful launch, Europe’s newest Earth-observation mission has cleared its...

Europe, indicate that at least one of these structures remained in use for a remarkable 429 years. Refining the Timeline of Ice Age Habitation A research team led by Wei Chu of Leiden University utilized an innovative dating strategy to clarify the...

and the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, deployed a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to navigate the dangerous, ice-choked waters where direct human exploration is impossible due to the risk of calving ice. Initially, the research team aimed...

Astrophysicist Abby Vieregg joins the Big Brains podcast to discuss how scientists use NASA balloons and ice arrays to hunt for elusive cosmic neutrinos. Astrophysicist Abby Vieregg is leading a pioneering effort to capture some of the most enigmatic...

utilized two distinct modeling approaches. The first simulated the physical impact, tracking the fragmentation of rock and ice as the debris clouds coalesced into a new moon. The second model analyzed the internal thermodynamics of these reconstructed...

The findings, published in two separate studies in Science Advances, reveal that the process of freezing ocean droplets into ice grains is not an instantaneous affair. Led by Frank Postberg of Freie Universität Berlin, researchers found that as these...

as a “liquid-liquid transition,” has been difficult to confirm. The problem lies in timing. Water tends to crystallize into ice so quickly in this temperature range that capturing its intermediate states has proven nearly impossible. Scientists have...

providing worldwide coverage, airborne missions can zero in on specific hotspots—such as active wildfires, rapidly changing ice fields, polluted urban corridors, and vulnerable ecosystems—to capture the fine‑grained processes that drive larger‑scale...

clues about his life and ancient preservation. More than five millennia after the Alpine glacier sealed his remains, the Iceman’s body continues to host a hidden community of microorganisms. Researchers have identified remnants of his ancient intestinal...

composed of debris from a shattered, ancient satellite system. This revelation suggests that the orbital neighborhood of the ice giant was once home to a more conventional family of moons, which were systematically dismantled following the arrival of...

suggests that the primary architect behind these features is not water, but a volatile dance of seasonal carbon dioxide ice. A study led by Apolline Leclef of the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale at Université Paris-Saclay, recently released as a...

R/V Shirase Unveils Model Inaccuracies During the expedition, which took place from December 2022 to March 2023, the research icebreaker R/V Shirase served as a floating laboratory. Scientists deployed sophisticated instrumentation to track a range of...

believe these traces, which were identified across a network of subterranean sites, may represent the oldest evidence of Ice Age cave art ever found in the country. If verified, the discovery suggests that early human settlers may have arrived in...