At the edge of East Antarctica, where the wind howls through a white emptiness and the air bites harder than steel, ...

A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of ...

The ice sample, retrieved in Antarctica, is the oldest on record—but this discovery may just be tip of the iceberg.

Earth’s climate balance isn’t just governed by the slow weathering of silicate rocks, which capture carbon and stabilize temperature over eons. New research reveals that biological and oceanic ...

Earth's mantle is so gooey, it takes eons for material that has been displaced by the weight of ice sheets to flow back. And ...

Scientists found six-million-year-old ice in Antarctica, unlocking the planet’s oldest samples and evidence of dramatic long-term cooling.

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...

Greenland is writhing as eons of ice accumulation and steady melting cause its foundations to change shape. This deformation, ...

If the route between the two major North American ice sheets didn’t fully open until about 13,000 years ago, how did early Homo sapiens travel from Alaska down into the Americas and even to ...

NASA confirms water`s chemical signature on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a discovery that could reveal secrets of distant planetary systems and the building blocks of life.

Around 6 million years ago, tiny bubbles of air became trapped inside ice in Antarctica and have remained sealed ever since, ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on Earth in East Antarctica, dating back six million years.