If you ever drove past the Rockies and thought mountains were permanent and unmoving, a recent photo taken from space might make you think again. NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, looking out the window of ...

Glaciers of carbon dioxide are moving, creating deposits kilometers thick today across the south polar region of Mars, something that could have been going on more than 600,000 years, a paper by ...

A massive slab of ice has broken away from one of Greenland’s largest glaciers, creating a rare Arctic ice island roughly the size of Manhattan and giving researchers a new opportunity to study ...

Climate change is resulting in sea level rise as ice on land melts and oceans expand. How much and how fast sea levels will rise in the near future will depend, in part, on the frequency of glacier ...

There's always a moment of intense isolation when Jessica Mejía gets dropped off on the Greenland ice sheet for a multi-week research stint. "You know you're very much alone," says Mejía, a ...