The Esa satellite record incorporates over 800 million measurements of ice height Satellite data points to thinning of Antarctic ice (Mathilde Bellenger/AFP/Getty Images) [...]

New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern (center) celebrates with school children at the moment the spacecraft planned to reached its closest approach to [...]

New Horizons data suggests Ultima Thule formed by slow collision

Drone locates WWII-era plane buried inside glacier The wreckage of a World War II-era P-38 Lightning fighter plane has been found beneath ice [...]

Colorful peacock spiders owe their vibrance to microlenses Colors on the abdomens of male peacock spiders appear extremely bright because of black patches [...]

Underwater cave holds remains of ancient bear, wolf-like creatures Bear and wolf-like fossils dating back about 11,000 years have been found in an [...]

Across the solar system, at least, more water probably exists as superionic ice — filling the interiors of Uranus and Neptune — than [...]

AI might have ability to spot alien life Artificial intelligence may be the key to finding intelligent alien life, writes Michael Oman-Reagan of [...]

Elements of proton's mass deciphered A complicated process inside a proton accounts for the bulk of the particle's mass, according to findings published [...]

Small digital computers played key role in lunar landing 50 years ago The first moon landing 50 years ago would not have been [...]