If they can synthesize this ice, it would be the 18th known crystalline form of water—and the first to be discovered in the United States since before World War II.

New research suggests that the makeup of space ice might be quite a bit different than we previously believed.

"Space ice" contains tiny crystals and is not a completely disordered material like liquid water, as previously assumed, ...

"Ice in the rest of the universe has long been considered a snapshot of liquid water – that is, a disordered arrangement fixed in place. Our findings show this is not entirely true." ...

Scientists have found that water ice in space isn't completely disordered as once believed. New research shows that up to 25% of so-called amorphous ice actually contains tiny crystals, changing how ...

Using a cryogenic scanning tunnelling microscope, here we report a new type of two-dimensional ice-like bilayer structure built from cyclic water tetramers on an insulating NaCl(001) film, which ...

Oct 17, 2023 12:00:00 A new structure of the mysterious ice 'superionic ice' that only melts at high temperatures is discovered, a discovery that approaches the mystery of the planet ...