The Antarctic polar desert is the largest in the world, spanning an area of 14.2 million square kilometres. Not only is it ...

The screenshot (above) is of a frozen region just southeast of Showa Station, a Japanese research station on Antarctica's ...

Trump's global warming refernces on the campaign trail include narratives that misrepresent reality and conflict with decades ...

The fluctuations between glacial and interglacial states are driven by changes in Earth's orbit ... cycle. Ice sheets respond to both changes in precipitation (snow) and summer temperature with ...

Is there life on Mars? Scientists have been seeking an answer to this question for a long time. Although no concrete evidence ...

The American space agency has launched a laser into orbit to measure the condition of Earth's ice ... this has no direct impact on the height of the oceans, the reduced ice-cover is working ...

New research indicates Antarctica’s melting ice is allowing plants to thrive, an ominous shift for the continent ...

The staff at the Mount Washington Observatory posted on social media showed a rime ice-covered observatory tower illuminated ...

Could microbes endure just beneath the surface of Mars, in exposed layers of dusty ice? Scientists say such places are worth ...

This 2012 satellite image captured an unusual snow-topped structure ... according to Earth Observatory. Some of the larger fragments of ice in the photo are peppered with small blue dots.

Natural climate patterns such as El Nino are causing tropical glaciers to lose their ice at an alarming rate, a new study has found.