Rochester Institute of Technology astrophysics professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe led the team behind the project and explains why ...

An Australian Antarctic expedition researching melting ice shelves and ocean currents has found phytoplankton in the depths ...

Look West from Promthep Cape on a clear Phuket night (on the rare nights that might be possible!) and the Milky Way stretches ...

Researchers said the ice levels in Antarctica naturally fluctuate each year; however, the growth slowed down by early 2024.

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The first-of-its-kind footage, taken in January 2024 via drone, captures a rare event that may become more common as sea ice declines and penguins are forced to adapt. Emperor penguin chicks jump ...

As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set. Such a practice gives credit to data set producers and advances principles of transparency and reproducibility. Other ...

A new all-optical atom trap trace analysis technique enables krypton-81 dating of 1-kg Antarctic ice samples, reducing required sample size and extending the dating range to 1.5 million years.

Left: Antarctic ice core and the bubbles contained in it. Right: Vacuum-ultraviolet light source and metastable krypton atom beam device. A team led by Prof. Zheng-Tian Lu and Prof. Wei Jiang from ...

And a Scandinavian project has been testing materials for huge underwater curtains to try and stop warm water from reaching the underside of Antarctic ... stack so we get ice growth from below.

Researchers from Tongji University in Shanghai tracked changes in the ice sheet covering Antarctica over more than 20 years using data from NASA. Between 2002, when the US space agency began ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar system. The frozen water was found within a debris disk circling HD 181327 ...