Around 6 million years ago, tiny bubbles of air became trapped inside ice in Antarctica and have remained sealed ever since, ...

You'd think there's nothing surprising left to discover about water. After all, researchers have been studying its properties for centuries. But today researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific ...

Scientists have been able to recreate the extreme conditions found on icy moons in deep space - and revealed the unstable behaviour of water. In the near-zero pressure environment of space, water ...

WASHINGTON — After a snow in the DMV, some enjoy snowball fights, sledding and other winter fun. But as temperatures rise during the day and the snow melts, then refreezes at night, there comes a ...

A source of fascination for scientists are the volcanoes on distant icy moons, such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus. These moons have liquid water underground that erupts to the ...