Idealized ice growth and stratigraphy at onset of snowball Earth. Note vertical exaggeration. (A) Marine-terminating terrestrial ice sheet with calving ice front prior to ice-albedo runaway into snowball glaciation. The

Photo of Nebula NGC 1333. The James Webb telescope detected interstellar ice there, which could be the origin of stars and planets. The study shows that this ice was apparently

Artist’s depiction of water rushing into Mars’ Jezero Crater, which billions of years ago was the site of a delta. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Visit ancient Mars—a surprisingly temperate planet where snow

A disintegrating planet orbits a giant star. Credit Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT MIT astronomers have discovered a planet some 140 light-years from Earth that is rapidly crumbling to pieces. The disintegrating

Integrated intensity maps of the 0.9 mm dust continuum emission (taken from Rosotti et al. (2020)) and molecular line emission from the HD 100453 disk. For the line maps, the