The Iceman had his hand on the ejection handle and was ready to punch out after an engine fire broke out on his F-4 Phantom flying with afterburners shortly after takeoff. But this was no scene ...

While Iceman in Top Gun is one of the late, great Val Kilmer's most famous roles, the actor really, really did not want to star in the film.

The Real Iceman. Lonnie Thompson has led or participated on more than 50 expeditions onto glaciers and ice sheets around the world, including to Antarctica in 1974 (above).

Ötzi the Iceman, whose frozen remains were found in a gully high in the Tyrolean Alps by hikers in 1991, is perhaps the world’s most closely studied corpse.

The ice preserved Ötzi the Iceman’s clothes, and scientists were able to analyze the materials and determine their origin. In a 2010 study in CHIMIA, a team of scientists analyzed the proteins in the ...

Ötzi the Iceman, whose 5,300-year-old body was found by hikers in the Tyrolean Alps, has 61 tattoos. Scientists now think they understand the technique behind them.

Ötzi the Iceman, whose frozen remains were found in a gully high in the Tyrolean Alps by hikers in 1991, is perhaps the world’s most closely studied corpse.