Antarctic winter sea ice falls to third-lowest level on record as scientists warn of ‘now problem’ | Antarctica
Antarctica’s winter sea ice has peaked at its third-lowest level on record, falling a million square kilometres –…
A Cold War Spy Satellite Named After Farrah Fawcett Just Blew Apart in Orbit
An American spy satellite unexpectedly shattered into pieces, creating a cloud of debris in low-Earth orbit. The U.S.…
HKU PhD Student Uncovers Hidden X-ray Phase After Star Merger
Image 1: Artist’s impression of satellites observing high-energy prompt emission from a binary neutron star merger. SVOM and…
A record-breaking X-ray flash may reveal the birth of a magnetar
Astronomers have long relied on brief bursts of gamma rays to identify collisions between neutron stars. These flashes…
Cities across the world are sinking because of groundwater depletion. But the process can be reversed
Many cities around the world are sinking because too much water is extracted from the groundwater reservoirs beneath…
Webb caught the rings of a tiny world beyond Saturn changing
Chariklo’s rings changed between 2017 and 2022, the inner one denser and the outer one fading, and an…
Black hole jets may decide the fate of entire galaxies
Galaxies can contain hundreds of billions of stars, but every one of those stars begins with cold, dense…
Sharks can hear nearly 250 feet away and pinpoint the source
The ocean is filled with sound, and for sharks, those sounds can reveal what is happening well beyond…
Astronomers May Have Found a Planet in The Habitable Zone of The Hottest Star Yet : ScienceAlert
Detecting planets outside of our Solar System mostly relies on measuring minute changes in the light of distant…
‘Beyond priceless’: how a halt to dredging saved the seas of Scotland’s Summer Isles | Scotland
Inside a bothy overlooking the Summer Isles, in the north-west of Scotland, the lilting tones of a traditional…
Astronomers have produced the clearest exoplanet ‘ultrasound’ to date and its twins!
Parents know the joy of the first ultrasound scan of their babies. Astronomers have now achieved the planetary…
Scientists find fundamental limits on quantum battery reliability
A collaboration of researchers from various parts of the world has identified the fundamental limits on the reliability…