A lone researcher may have figured out how Mars was able to support rivers and seas even after the planet had begun to grow cold and its atmosphere thin, and it's all thanks to a cycle of water and ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell University researchers have provided a simple and comprehensive – if less dramatic – explanation for bright radar reflections initially interpreted as liquid water beneath the ...

GREENLAND, AS YOU MAY KNOW, IS NEITHER NOT GREEN AND NOT REALLY LAND, BUT RATHER COVERED BY THE SECOND LARGEST BODY OF ICE IN THE WORLD, SECOND ONLY TO THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET. BUT THE ICE IS MELTING ...

The problem is clear: the world’s glaciers are melting, causing sea levels to rise. As global temperatures soar due to the ...

Like a trio of canaries in a coal mine warbling at the top of their lungs, three recent studies warn of various ways that global warming is drastically changing the planet. Each study involves the ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - A native Greenland entrepreneur on Monday presented the Arctic island's first domestic beer, brewed on water at least 2,000 years old and melted from Greenland's vast ice ...

Frozen in time, ancient microbes or their remains could be found in Martian ice deposits during future missions to the red planet. By recreating Mars-like conditions in the lab, a team of researchers ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. A haze of ice crystals in the air created a halo around the low sun as three snowmobiles thundered onto the ...

A simulated perspective of Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system, with water frost at its peak. ESA / DLR / FU Berlin (A. Valantinas) The volcanoes along Mars’ equator are massive, ...

The Mars Express orbiter has detected enough water ice buried beneath the Red Planet's equator to cover the entire planet in a shallow ocean if melted. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...