Until now, the oldest continuous ice cores dated back about 800,000 years. The COLDEX team has now extended that record roughly sixfold, reaching into a deep past when Antarctica’s climate was undergoing dramatic…
Scientists have identified a cold-activated protein in the bowhead whale that may explain its extraordinary lifespan and could one day help humans live longer by improving DNA repair mechanisms, according to media reports.
The bowhead whale…
The last time someone photographed the exosphere, the outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere separating it from outer space, was in the 1970s from the surface of the Moon.
This is a problem for two reasons, said Brian Walsh,…
New images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed NGC 6537, the Red Spider Nebula in unprecedented detail, complete with sprawling legs, a glowing heart, and possibly a hidden companion lurking at its core.
NGC 6537, to use its…
The behaviour of information released during black hole evaporation represents a fundamental challenge to modern physics, and recent research by Yipeng Liu, Wei Xu, and Baocheng Zhang from China University of Geosciences sheds new light on…
By the date of its perihelion,…
New observations of a strange object that wobbles around the space between Jupiter and Uranus reveal what looks like a system of rings forming and evolving, even as we watch.
The object, named Chiron, is a chunk of rock shaped a bit like a
Mine workers in Western Australia found a “smoking slab” speculated to be part of the upper stage of a Chinese space rocket that fell back to Earth, according to Space.com.
On October 18, workers found a smoldering slab of metal…