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While ice itself is slick, slippery, and difficult to navigate across under most circumstances, skaters easily glide across the ice.

As the closest icy ocean world to Earth, Ceres may be a promising candidate in the search for signs of ancient life.

Could life be widespread throughout the cosmos, in the subsurface oceans of ice-covered worlds? NASA’s Europa Clipper mission investigates.

IceCube scientists have detected high-energy tau neutrinos from deep space, suggesting that neutrino transformations occur not only in lab experiments but also over cosmic distances.

Plagues, war, and genocide were literally frozen in time.

This research team is working out how to detect extraterrestrial cells in the liquid water ocean hidden beneath Enceladus’s icy crust.

The ANITA experiment found cosmic rays shooting out of Antarctica. One interpretation claims “parallel Universes,” but is that right?

It’s the ultimate setup for a Thanksgiving Day disaster. The physics of water and its solid, liquid, and gas phases compels us not to do it.

On Earth, our particle accelerators can reach tera-electron-volt (TeV) energies. Particles from space are thousands of times as energetic.

The existence of another watery world in the outer solar system may offer clues to how such seas form — and hope for another spot to search for life.

New research is uncovering why we eat first with our expectations.

Ice harvesters once made a living from frozen lakes and ponds, but the work was strenuous and dangerous. Then refrigeration changed everything.

She’s a fierce competitor on the ice. But the figure skater’s toughest battle has been accepting her shortcomings and learning to love herself.

If there’s life lurking on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, could our instruments even detect it?

Along with obsidian that dazzled scientists in Canada.

The ultimate multi-messenger astronomy event would have gravitational waves, particles, and light arriving all at once. Did that just occur?

These nematodes complicate how we understand evolutionary lineages.

MIT Scientist Jason Soderblom describes how the NASA mission will study the geology and composition of the surface of Jupiter’s water-rich moon and assess its astrobiological potential.

Known as the Great Oxygenation Event, Earth froze over as oxygen accumulated in our atmosphere, nearly driving all life extinct.

Skilled hunters adapted to the changing landscape and left tantalizing clues to who they were.

As Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery… consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

The path of a curling stone on ice — and how it can be influenced — is a revealing metaphor for life’s decisions.

Ancient currents seemed to move in concert with a 2.4 million-year dance between the Red Planet and Earth.

U.S. particle physicists recently recommended a list of major research projects that they hope will receive federal funding.

There may be more energy in methane hydrates than in all the world’s oil, coal, and gas combined. It could be the perfect “bridge fuel” to a clean energy future.

Humanity has two giant collisions to thank for its existence, explains biologist Sean B. Carroll.

The hunt for extraterrestrial life begins with planets like Earth. But our inhabited Earth once looked very different than Earth does today.

The Roman Empire at one point emitted roughly 3,600 tons of lead dust per year, causing “widespread cognitive decline.”

The threats Mars astronauts face — and how NASA is working to solve them.

All the stars, stellar corpses, planets, and other large, massive objects take on spherical or spheroidal shapes. Why is that universal?