Big islands mean big opportunities to find somewhere magical, all for yourself. To those who think the world has been “done”, ...

But it revealed some features, including what could be a polar ice cap. “For now we can only say that it’s very suspiciously suggestive of a polar cap,” said New Horizons principal ...

In 1845-46, the Franklin expedition spent its first winter camped on tiny neighboring Beechey Island (distant background ... by pack ice blown down from the polar cap. “I was worried a floe ...

The crew shared a brief video of the frigid polar ice caps early Tuesday morning shortly after blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Monday night. They have since documented ...

Given that Mars is significantly colder and further from the Sun, it's easy to imagine that its polar ice caps have been there for ages, and the planet is frozen and static. But that isn't likely ...

The ice cap is causing the ground beneath it to depress at a rate of up to 0.13 mm per year, indicating a cold and highly viscous upper mantle. This slow deformation suggests that Mars's interior ...

A new study led by a team of scientists from the University of Leeds has revealed that the cold conditions that have allowed the formation of polar ice caps on Earth are exceptional events in the ...

Polar bears Christmas is a winter holiday in northern countries, which is why cold weather animals like polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are often associated with the festive season.

Earth’s albedo has been declining since the 1970s, largely due to the melting of polar ice caps, which help to ... once the impacts of background climate change and the 2023 El Niño are tallied.

The seasonal polar caps of Mars are primarily made up of carbon dioxide ice, interspersed with some water ice ... Artist’s impression of Mars Express. The background is based on an actual image of ...

Why it's so special: This week, researchers at the University of Arizona (UA) shared one of the most beautiful images of dunes on the surface of Mars ever taken. The team snapped the image using ...