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 ...

These formations consist of intricate, branching channels that resemble giant alien spider webs spread across the southern polar ice cap. Unlike Earth, where erosion is primarily caused by water ...

The polar ice caps are melting, and it is, to put it mildly, a problem. Melting glaciers have several environmental and ecological ramifications; those implications include rising sea levels and ...

"The Tibetan Plateau was previously thought to be uninhabitable during the last glacial maximum," said Li. Evidence found in the region shows that humans lived on the Tibetan Plateau before and after ...

YOKOHAMA--Japan’s first Arctic research vessel now under construction here will be capable of smashing through sea ice up to 1.2 meters thick to reach the northern polar region to study sea ...

Chinese scientists have successfully conducted an ice-cap detection experiment in Antarctica ... data support for research on the melting of polar ice sheets, the evolution of subglacial lakes ...