Primordial magnetic fields could have accelerated the process of recombination—when electrons and protons combined to form atoms—changing the patterns in the cosmic microwave background. phys.org/news/2026-01...
As we breach 1.5 °C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A new map has unmasked the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice in unprecedented detail, something scientists say could greatly enhance our understanding of the frozen white continent. They found evidence of thousands of previously undiscovered hills and ridges. bbc.com/news/article...
For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft. science.nasa.gov/missions/xri...
Deep-sea earthquakes fuel huge plankton blooms in Antarctica | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Warm, humid ‘atmospheric rivers’ threaten Antarctica | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
What our missing ocean float revealed about Antarctica’s melting glaciers
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Researchers have found 6 million-year-old ice in the Allan Hills region of Antarctica and say the oldest-of-its-kind sample offers an unprecedented view into Earth's ancient climate. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
The problem with ‘mega-COPs’: can a 50,000-person conference still tackle climate change?
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Why China is leading perovskite solar commercialization cen.acs.org/business/ino...
Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a prime candidate for further research. www.wired.com/story/more-e...
The strongest gravitational wave signal yet. GW250114 was detected by both arms of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in Washington and Louisiana USA earlier this year.
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detect most massive black hole merger to date | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
BREAKING NEWS: NASA has found a potential sign of past life on Mars. www.nasa.gov/news-release...
New approach uses observed local supervoid to give expansion of the universe an extra push and solve the Hubble tension phys.org/news/2024-11... via
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Perseid meteor shower 2025: When, where and how to see it www.space.com/32868-persei...
New Zealand Air Force Mounts Dangerous Rescue in Antarctica www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/w...
Scientists may have solved a chemistry mystery about Jupiter's ocean moon Europa. www.space.com/astronomy/ju...
On July 9, 2025, Earth spun faster than usual, enough to make the day 1.6 milliseconds shorter than the standard 24 hours. Add a leap day every 4 years, except: Years divisible by 100, unless they’re also divisible by 400, giving 365.2425 days/year, which is very close to the real 365.2422.
For the first time ever, MIRI on JWST discovered an exoplanet by directl imaging. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A dedicated search for upward-going air showers at energies >0.1 EeV has been performed using the Fluorescence Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory. arxiv.org/abs/2502.04513
Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager at 17.4 nanometres, viewing the Sun from a latitude 11.4° below the equator at a distance of 77 million km.
Model suggests impact of global warming on AMOC has led to increased flooding along US Northeast Coast phys.org/news/2025-05...
Two separate axion-hunting groups have turned their gaze to a new potential source: starburst galaxies physics.aps.org/articles/v18...
Scientists discover a new colour by laser stimulation of only M cones and not L or S, which in principle would send a colour signal to the brain that never occurs in natural vision. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The NSF Solar Telescope in Hawaii, the largest solar telescope globally, with the Visible Tunable Filtergraph (VTF), has taken its first images.The new VTF has an unparalleled combination of imaging, spectral, and polarimetric capabilities.
Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica covers an area about the size of Florida. It has the largest ocean front of any glacier in the world.
