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

Scientists have discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on Earth in East Antarctica, dating back six million years.

For decades, researchers seeking to understand global climate change have analyzed ice cores drilled deep within the ...

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 ...

In the dog days of summer, popping a tray of water into the freezer to make ice cubes may seem mundane. But at the smallest scales, we still don’t know a lot about how freezing unfolds. Now, the first ...

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 ...