The place that never freezes: the Arctic habitat where global heating threatens more ice, not less | Sea ice
Electric-blue meltwater sprays up under Terry Noah’s snowmobile as he races across sea ice extending out from Canada’s…
Could the Pentagon launch rockets into space from Banks Peninsula?
The National Aerospace Centre’s new policy on what to launch into space would say yes to the New…
Space scientists share 16 stunning ‘cosmic gem’ images | National
(NASA/CXC/SAO et al. via SWNS) By Dean Murray Space scientists have revealed a gallery of “cosmic gems.” A…
Whyalla steelworks sale faces potential delay as locals react to uncertainty
On and off for the past five months, a thick plume of steam has puffed out of the…
Arab News | Helene Huby: The rocket scientist and entrepreneur aiming to boost Arab countries’ presence in space
PARIS: Helene Huby may still be aged under 50, but she leads one of Europe’s most ambitious space…
The Human Family Tree May Need a Major Rewrite
New Monash University research argues our Paranthropus (pictured) and Australopithecus ancestors who lived up to 5 million years…
Climate change past the point of no return, UN says, as worst impacts are now unavoidable
In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has…
China’s private, reusable Pallas-1 rocket aces debut launch (video)
Another reusable Chinese rocket has taken to the skies. Pallas-1, a launcher developed by the Beijing-based company Galactic…
Giant mega-Earth is 23 times more massive than Earth
View larger. | Artist’s concept of a giant mega-Earth. The newly discovered mega-Earth GJ 523b is 23.5 times…
Trump administration cut funds for landslide monitoring in Nepal
In January 2025, the Trump administration cut off funding for a long-running natural hazards program that aimed to…
NASA’s Hubble Tracks New Decagon Encircling Saturn’s South Pole
Recent NASA Hubble Space Telescope images show the gas giant Saturn and its southern pole, where astronomers have…
Astronomers can identify water vapour, carbon dioxide and even oxygen across light-years—but nitrogen, despite filling 78 per cent of Earth’s atmosphere, is exceptionally difficult to see because N₂ lacks the strong infrared fingerprint of most gases. Only the faint signal created when nitrogen molecules collide gives it away.
The most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere is almost invisible to the methods astronomers use to read distant…