During our freezing weather we've gotten several photos of freakish ice formations on pet water bowls and birdbaths and people wondering just what is going on.

Ice spikes are also known as ice towers, ... The water in the middle becomes squeezed in on all sides with nowhere to go. It's forced up and out through the hole in the ice.

Although ice spikes occur frequently, no one is entirely sure why, says Caltech physics professor Kenneth Libbrecht, who conducted a study on ice spikes in 2003. He enlisted a student to freeze ...

Ice spikes may very well be the perfect untraceable weapon, ... expanding as they go. ... a gummy bear-like ball can roll down a vertical wall all by itself—upending a core assumption in physics.

Menacing Ice Spikes on Europa Could Endanger Future Landers The last thing a future mission to the moon needs is a 50 foot jut of ice. By John Wenz Published: Oct 08, 2018 11:42 AM EDT ...

While the reasons why and how these spikes occur aren’t entirely clear, they do seem to appear frequently, such as in ice cube trays in freezers. We asked you to submit photos of ice spikes that ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — You've probably never seen anything like it; a big block of ice with a frozen spike sticking out of the center. "They're rare, but we do see them on occasion," says WFMY Chief ...

LEONARD, N.D. (CNN) --A mysterious structure sprouting from the Maple River has drivers craning their necks. Three days ago, Olley Eberhardt and his neighbors near Leonard noticed something ...

The 3.3 to 16.4 foot (1 to 5 meter) spikes of ice only grow in certain parts of the Andes mountains on Earth, but those areas of the world serve as good proxies for what Europa's geology might be ...

On Earth, of course, they're made of water ice rather than methane, and they don't reach nearly the scale of Pluto's (they grow only to 20 feet at their highest). Penitentes in the Atacama Desert ...