When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Peter Buhler/PSI A lone researcher may have figured out how Mars was able to support ...

Between snowy winters and holiday songs, many animals come to mind during Christmas. There are polar bears wearing Santa hats and red-nosed reindeer pulling Santa’s sleigh. Turtle doves and the ...

Captured by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) high-resolution stereo camera, Mars Express, the image close up of the planet’s south polar ice cap extends across its cratered highlands to the Hellas ...

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 ...

The ice floe has cracked in two. To the untrained eye, the floe appears vast and unchanging. In nearly every direction, a sculpture garden of snow and ice stretches toward the horizon, where it ...