Mars may look like a dry and dusty world, but just beneath its surface lies one of the most surprising discoveries in ...

Underneath Antarctica’s endless sheets of ice lies a hidden world of deep valleys, towering peaks, and sprawling plains. For ...

The Arctic has long filled humans with awe, but there are now profoundly worrying signals coming from the frozen landscape ... by ice — is pervasive, she said, releasing planet-heating carbon ...

Follow photojournalist James Balog to some of the most remote and beautiful places on Earth as he documents the disappearance of an icy landscape ... massive glaciers and ice sheets splitting ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.

Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...

To make matters worse, NASA scientists also discovered that, this year, summer ice in the Antarctic retreated to 764,000 square miles (1.98 million square kilometers) as of March 1, tying for "the ...

Follow photojournalist James Balog to some of the most remote and beautiful places on Earth as he documents the disappearance of an icy landscape ... massive glaciers and ice sheets splitting ...