Insulation provided by carbon dioxide ice above the martian polar caps could explain many of the Red Planet’s ancient river features.

Extreme winds stir up planet-wide dust storms. Like Earth, Mars also has icy glaciers at its polar regions that never melt. But when summer rolls around, the planet’s temperate zone warms up enough to ...

To 1950s stargazers, the planet Venus looked like "a forest world where it's always raining", says rock star physicist Dr Brian Cox. We now know that this cloudy-looking neighbour is covered in ...

But the problems presented by Mars' atmosphere for ice to melt into water don't exist below a glacier or tightly packed snow. The team plans to map out the most likely spots on Mars where shallow ...

Scientists think the same process could be happening on Mars. Dust holes found in 2012 on Alaska’s Matanuska Glacier. Similar pockets could form on Mars, scientists think. Kimberly Casey CC-BY ...

Scientists report that the Greek islands may soon be submerged under water. The cause of this alarming phenomenon is the ...

New research suggests that about 3.6 billion years ago, Mars featured vast water flows and a lake rivaling the size of the ...

Visit strange, frozen worlds – from Uranus’s ultra-hot superionic ice, to glaciers of nitrogen ice on Pluto, to carbon dioxide snow on Mars – and discover why the ice here on Earth is so unique.

The Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, lying roughly midway between Norway’s northern coast and the North Pole, is the site ...

On a cold, ancient Mars, rivers flowed and a lake the size of the Mediterranean Sea swelled under the protection of thick ice ...

Everton boss Sean Dyche said that nobody likes to see managers go when asked to comment of former Manchester United boss Erik Ten Hag's sacking Finch Farm, Liverpool, UK ...