Huge shells of frozen carbon dioxide at Mars' south polar cap resulted in subsurface meltwater, which fed a huge system of rivers, lakes and even a sea, a new study suggests.

Off the coast of Antarctica, the sea ice retreated toward the southernmost continent and, like a bottle cap taken off a soda ...

If you've ever looked at Mars through a telescope, you probably noticed its two polar ice caps. The northern one is made largely of water ice—the most obvious sign that Mars was once a wetter, warmer ...

A swirling mound of ice riddled with dark spiral troughs crowns the north pole of Mars, seen here in a new mosaic from ESA’s Mars Express. The mosaic comprises 57 separate images taken by the High ...

Like a trio of canaries in a coal mine warbling at the top of their lungs, three recent studies warn of various ways that global warming is drastically changing the planet. Each study involves the ...

GREENLAND, AS YOU MAY KNOW, IS NEITHER NOT GREEN AND NOT REALLY LAND, BUT RATHER COVERED BY THE SECOND LARGEST BODY OF ICE IN THE WORLD, SECOND ONLY TO THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET. BUT THE ICE IS MELTING.

A simulated perspective of Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system, with water frost at its peak. ESA / DLR / FU Berlin (A. Valantinas) The volcanoes along Mars’ equator are massive, ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - A native Greenland entrepreneur on Monday presented the Arctic island's first domestic beer, brewed on water at least 2,000 years old and melted from Greenland's vast ice ...

The pic. here snow (in white) and ice (in yellow) across the northern part of the Northern Hemisphere. You can see the (permanent) ice cap is still there – a bit smaller than it was in the late 1970s ...

In 1678, the inhabitants of the Swiss village of Fiesch became fed up with the ever-growing glacier next door—the Aletsch, largest in the Alps—which was swallowing their homes and fields. So they ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Arctic ice at the North Pole melted at a record rate in the summer of 2007, the latest sign that climate change has accelerated in recent years, climate scientists said on ...