NASA satellites looked down on huge cracks forming in sea ice in Canada's far north. What is it? The Amundsen Gulf is named ...

The ANITA experiment, built to detect neutrinos, has detected very strange radio waves coming from deep below the Antarctic ...

Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of ...

John Gimlette spends a week in Svalbard, a little-known destination in Sweden where the latest Mission Impossible was filmed.

Moved to Boston, where he took a job appraising buildings for an insurance company. Became so fascinated with the buildings’ designs that he decided he would become an architect. Enrolled at the ...

The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...

The three-kilometre-thick ice sheet covering Mars's north pole is young, formed between 2 and 12 million years ago. The ice sheet is bending the rocky crust beneath at a rate of 0.13 millimetres per ...

Water is the essence of life. When scientists discovered permafrost ice caps on Mars’ north pole in 1976, the news immediately sparked speculation about potential life on the red planet. The later ...

There, the dust that coats the surface of Mars mixes with water ice. Layers upon layers of dust ... which includes the north pole itself, which is out of frame to the image's right.

Frost-capped sand dunes near Mars's north pole, captured by the Mars ... gas before they reach the ground. Year-round ice at Mars's south pole contrasts from the colored walls of flat-floored ...

A new analysis of Mars using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revealed previously hidden structures under the northern ice cap. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window ...

Understanding the relationship between Mars’ climate and its axial tilt and orbit ... this goal have studied the polar ice caps: huge sheets of water ice at the north and south pole. To gain more ...