Water frozen in the depths of space has long been considered a shapeless, frozen fog. For decades, scientists believed it ...

Space ice” contains tiny crystals and is not, as previously assumed, a completely disordered material like liquid water, ...

Up until now, we have been able to measure the major, intense absorption features linked with major species in the ice, namely water, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methanol, and ammonia.

When ice freezes normally on Earth, its molecules stack into an organized crystalline structure. This crystalline ice is one of the weird quirks of H2O, because it floats on liquid water in its ...

When ice freezes normally on Earth, its molecules stack into an organized crystalline structure. This crystalline ice is one of the weird quirks of H2O, because it floats on liquid water in its ...

The surface of ice is a slippery subject. For more than 160 years, scientists have been debating the quirks of ice’s exterior. Frozen water is coated in a layer of molecules that behave like a ...

Ice cubes float in water because they’re less dense than the liquid. But a newfound type of ice has a density nearly equal to what’s in your water glass, researchers report in the Feb. 3 ...

The process of freezing water actually releases heat, which is why you can use an infrared camera to see ice heat up as it solidifies. Ice nucleation begins when, by chance, random jiggling arranges a ...

The ice had a molecular density similar to that of liquid water, with no apparent ordered structure to the molecules — meaning that crystallinity was “destroyed”, says Salzmann. “You’re ...

"Space ice" contains tiny crystals and is not a completely disordered material like liquid water, as previously assumed, ...