Researchers witness gigantic iceberg A-84 breaking away from George VI, revealing an unknown ecosystem and giant phantom ...

Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, ...

In addition to low-lying valleys, covered lakes, and bizarre sub-glacial rivers, the Antarctic ice is also hiding massive ...

Uranus, positioned about 2 billion miles from Earth, is classified as an “ice giant” because of its unique composition of water, ammonia, and methane. The planet’s atmosphere, mainly ...

Instead, the planet has a soft surface that's a mixture of water, ammonia and methane. Researchers call Uranus an ice giant because its interior consists largely of these fluids, all of which have ...

Astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made an unusual discovery, finding a planet which is in ... contains volatile gases and ice as expected from a real comet ...

The planet had not been swallowed by a swelling red giant, as once thought. It had spiraled inward, drawn by the star’s own gravity, and plunged to its death. “The planet eventually started to ...

Etter said, “We literally then end up living in a state that is basically just a giant ICE army.” ...

But he noted that we've been aware since the '80s of dramatic quantities of microbes found in even the most pristine of Antarctic ice sheets or on top of mountains, such as the Andean glaciers ...

Rather, it is a "fuzzy soup" made of rocks, ice and ... the ringed giant on Sept. 1, 1979. NASA's Voyager 1 flew past Saturn in 1980 and, along with Voyager 2, which reached the planet in 1981 ...