Antarctica gained 766 billion tons of ice in just 22 months
After decades of losses, satellites recorded a massive Antarctic ice gain between 2021 and 2023, but researchers say…
The James Webb Space Telescope studied 72 young star systems and revealed why Jupiter-like planets face a race against time: they must acquire their massive atmospheres within the gas-rich disc’s first several million years, before jets and disc winds disperse the material needed to build them.
Jupiter is mostly an atmosphere wrapped around a comparatively small heavy-element interior. That familiar description conceals a severe…
Helicopter Rescues Climber Stung Over 100 Times by Wasps
A rock-climbing outing north of Vancouver turned into an aerial rescue Tuesday after a 33-year-old woman was…
Paleontologists Identify New Species of Glyptodont
An incomplete fossilized skull that has sat in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Denmark since…
A Relentless Storm Pattern Is Making Arctic Sea Ice Disappear Faster
Aerial view of newly formed sea ice in the Arctic. Credit: Alfred Wegener Institute / IceCam / Stefan…
This Startup Is Building Superconducting Satellite Motors
Zenno CEO Max Arshavsky Zenno Superconducting satellites. Progress in nuclear fusion. Why performative AI is overrated. All that…
Japan killed more than 14,000 bears between April 2025 and January 2026 after record attacks on people; despite the cull, 6 people have been killed this year and the government plans to remove another 8,800 bears
Japan killed more than 14,000 bears between April 2025 and January 2026 after record attacks on people; despite…
Stereoscopic comparison as the long-lost secret to microscopically detailed illumination like the Book of Kells’
Stereoscopic comparison as the long-lost secret to microscopically detailed illumination like the Book of Kells’ By John L.…
Number of Australians missing in Nepal’s deadly floods rises again, as Albanese deploys more personnel | Nepal-Tibet flood disaster
The number of Australians who were reported missing in the catastrophic Nepal flooding disaster has risen to 41,…
What time will SpaceX launch NASA’s Roman Space Telscope on Aug. 30? (Full mission timeline)
A huge SpaceX rocket is just days away from launching NASA’s next great observatory into space: the Roman…
Vets’ Jaws Drop When A Hedgehog Arrives Attached To A Garden Gate
When a homeowner in Oxfordshire, England, stepped outside one morning, she was stunned by what she found tangled…
The instrument giving NASA its clearest listen into interstellar space wasn’t built for that job at all — it was designed to study radio bursts during Voyager 1’s 1980 flybys of Jupiter and Saturn, and left switched on afterward almost as an afterthought, right before the instrument actually meant to measure interstellar gas failed for good
Walk through a doorway in a dark house and your skin will not register the frame passing over…