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

Might the ice on distant moons and gliding across interstellar clouds be intrinsically different from the ice in a ground-based freezer? In planetary science and astrochemistry for decades, it had ...

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

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

The colder that water gets, the smaller this energy barrier gets. This makes it easier for random molecular motions to push a tiny embryonic ice structure over the critical size threshold. Ice forms ...

Normally, ice is made up of crinkled layers: Some water molecules in each layer are lower, and some higher. But the team found places where water molecules lined up in a plane, a structure that ...

The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about ...

And molecular water is “not stable in other regions of the moon,” vaporizing at lower latitudes where temperatures can exceed 100 degrees Celsius (212 Fahrenheit), said Qian. This new study ...

Molecular dynamics model uses topological order parameter to show stratification of water molecules based on density.