Long thought to be completely disordered, space ice appears to have some crystallized regions, new research suggests.

Simulations and experiments indicate that the low-density amorphous ice found on comets and icy moons is not, in fact, ...

Findings may have wide-ranging implications, from the origins of life to the characterisation of technological glasses ...

Not all ice is created equal. A recent study published in Nature Communications by researchers at the University of Innsbruck has identified the 19th form of water ice. A second paper by ...

Broadly, water ice falls into two distinct categories. Crystalline ice is what we have here on Earth, where the atoms are arranged in a neat crystalline lattice. In space, scientists thought, ice ...

Scientists have examined the interstellar invader 3I/ATLAS, finding evidence that it is packed with water that could be older than the solar system.

A team of scientists has found the recently discovered "interstellar invader" comet 3I/ATLAS is teeming with water ice. This water could have been sealed in the comet for 7 billion years, which ...

Water ice is a crucial building block of planetary systems. We've found plenty of it in our own Solar System, in places like Europa, Mars, and wayward comets, but we've never made a definitive ...