New research shows that ice in space, once thought to be fully amorphous, may contain up to 25% tiny crystalline structures—altering theories on planet formation and the delivery of life’s building ...

Picture this: you’re standing in a frozen landscape, breath visible in the crisp air, when suddenly the sky explodes into a ...

On May 11, 2025, residents in Guangxi, China witnessed a rare "Kaleidoscopic Sky" event. Cone-shaped ice crystals created vibrant halos and arcs through sunlight refraction. The dazzling ...

4K footage captures hoar frost, where ice crystals delicately form on surfaces as water vapor freezes directly in cold, clear, humid winter nights.

A haze of ice crystals in the air created a halo around the low sun as three snowmobiles thundered onto the sea ice on a February morning in far northern Canada. It was –26 degrees Celsius as we ...

It is never easy. Soft rime ice is just ice crystals that formed as supercool water froze when it hit a surface. These crystals are white or “milky,” not clear. They only form in the absence ...

Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (Courtesy: Tim Sweet) The National Weather Service describes rime frost as a deposit of interlocking ice crystals formed by direct sublimation on objects.

The science of snowflakes: See how they form and why no two are ever alike Snow is made up of trillions of tiny ice crystals that make snowflakes, with not one alike. Here's how they form.

Unusual shaped ice with an even more unique name has been spotted around Portland after sub-freezing mornings.

Meanwhile, hoar frost forms when "water vapor directly transitions to ice crystals on a cold surface without first becoming liquid." Hoar frost also appears as delicate ice needles or scales with a ...