Europa’s buried ocean has made it one of the most exciting places to search for life beyond Earth. However, new calculations suggest its seafloor may be calm, cold, and largely inactive, with little ...
After a 12-day crossing, and a hard slog through sea ice, the field work on this Antarctic expedition is ready to start.
In northwestern Greenland, researchers working on the GreenDrill project have cored through a 500-meter-thick ice dome. They ...
Analysis of core samples extracted from beneath an ice sheet indicates that the region is extremely responsive to the temperatures characteristic of today’s interglacial period. Researchers involved ...
Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, ...
Scientists probing for Earth's oldest continuous ice core near the South Pole Basin have uncovered disturbed basal layers and ...
Antarctica’s New Year’s celebration is unlike any other: every January 1 scientists physically move the South Pole. This is ...
An expedition earlier this year to the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan retrieved two ice cores from a glacier that seems to be ...
Small lakes on ancient Mars may have remained liquid for decades, even with average air temperatures well below freezing.
Prudhoe Ice Dome disappeared during a warm period 7000 years ago. Global warming could cause similar temperatures by 2100, ...
The first study from GreenDrill—a project co-led by the University at Buffalo to collect rocks and sediment buried beneath ...