In January 2026, ESA’s CryoSat satellite, primarily designed to monitor polar ice, detected a powerful geomagnetic storm triggered by an X-class solar flare. This was made possible after the satellite ...

It’s a bit like reading a very dense book – it’s small in size, but it’s full of information.” Paleoclimatologists like ...

Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...

Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of strange plume-like structures hidden deep inside the Greenland ice sheet.

Earth experienced several periods in its history when ice covered nearly the entire planet, known as snowball Earth events. A study at the Earth-Life Science Institute at Institute of Science Tokyo ...