Glaciers are melting faster than at any other time in recorded history, and the consequences extend far beyond iconic vanishing ice.

By studying the rock and other materials blasted out of a crater in an impact, planetary scientists say they were able to ...

New research reveals mountain glaciers across the globe will not recover for centuries—even if human intervention cools the ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

Learn how Homo erectus journeyed to the Indonesian island of Java, leaving behind fossils that now provide insight on the ...

GUIDE: Banff National Park is home to some of Earth’s most awe-inspiring glaciers! These colossal rivers of ice, born over ...

An excerpt from geographer and cartographer Fanny Bullock Workman’s account in ‘High Altitude Heroines: Four Early Explorers ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar system. The frozen water was found within a debris disk circling HD 181327, a ...

IT will soon be easier for Scots to head to Iceland and explore the land of fire and ice, thanks to a new flight launching in ...

A fast-moving glacier in West Antarctica is “stealing” ice from its neighbor in a newly observed case of ice piracy.

Julie Meachen, an expert in Ice Age megafauna, skirts a dirt ledge called “the Saddle” deep inside a remarkable hollow in northern Wyoming known as Natural Trap Cave. She stops to observe Megan ...

In addition to low-lying valleys, covered lakes, and bizarre sub-glacial rivers, the Antarctic ice is also hiding massive ...