Snowflakes provide many of us with our earliest impressions of what it means to be unique. Even within a group—the flakes so ...

Snow is made up of trillions of tiny ice crystals to make snowflakes, with not one alike. Here's how they form.

Did you know the Great Lakes experience a rare winter phenomenon called ice volcanoes? These icy eruptions form when waves crash into frozen shorelines, creating cone-shaped structures that look like ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...