At roughly 425 parts per million, today’s atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration sits nearly 80 percent above the level ...

Mercury’s water ice has always looked like a contradiction. By day, the planet’s surface can soar to about 430 degrees ...

A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience by researchers at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea shows that the Antarctic ice sheet became ...

Ice cubes float in water because they’re less dense than the liquid. But a newfound type of ice has a density nearly equal to what’s in your water glass, researchers report in the Feb. 3 Science. If ...

The source of the significant water ice deposits hidden in Mercury's polar regions has been a topic of debate among ...

A new study suggests Antarctica’s ice sheet hit a climate tipping point about one million years ago, making it far more ...

Mercury’s polar ice deposits may have formed in just one Mercurian day after a giant comet or asteroid slammed into the ...

Berkeley — Jupiter has a rocky core that is more than twice as large as previously thought, according to computer calculations by a University of California, Berkeley, geophysicist who simulated ...

Combining artificial intelligence and quantum mechanics, researchers have simulated what happens at the molecular level when water freezes. The result is the most complete yet simulation of the first ...