Credit: ESA/Cover Images A revolutionary new umbrella-like satellite from the European Space Agency (ESA) has just unveiled ...

ATL07QL is the quick look version of ATL07 and is based on the same algorithms that generate the ATL07 final data products. Once final ATL07 files are available, the corresponding ATL07QL files are ...

Posted: June 19, 2025 | Last updated: June 19, 2025 The curious minds at What If examine the global destruction that could unfold if Antarctica's ice were to melt completely.

Ice cores are a pretty good way to get an idea of the Earth's atmosphere in the ancient past, thanks to their ability to trap bubbles of gas within them. "Like a prehistoric fly trapped in amber ...

Earth has not always been so hospitable to live. During several ice ages, the planet's surface was almost completely frozen over, creating what has been dubbed "Snowball Earth".

In 2018, members of a New Zealand research team visited the McMurdo ice shelf in east Antarctica, home to several such pools, which are only a few metres wide and less a metre deep.

A Baffling Signal Shot Up From Deep Within Earth’s Ice—and No One Knows What Caused It Could the signals be coming from particles previously unknown to physics?

WASHINGTON — The population of emperor penguins in one part of Antarctica appears to be declining faster than previously thought, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery released June 10.

They are animals adapted to snow.” Scientists have observed a reduction in Antarctica’s sea ice due to rising temperatures. Image courtesy of ICCE/Anderson Astor and Marcelo Curia.