Scientists have now created an exotic new form of ice in the lab, known as “plastic ice VII.” This strange version could exist naturally on other planets and moons in our solar system.

Over 15 years ago, computer simulations showed that when ice VII is heated and subjected to extreme pressures, its individual water molecules should start to rotate freely, as if a liquid ...

The work has been published in Nature. Plastic ice VII was originally predicted more than 15 years ago by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations as a phase of water that could exist under high ...