Earth’s history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today. Wh...
The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. (Image credit: MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO) A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star’s habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 li...
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SpaceX’s Fram2 mission has successfully shared the ‘first views of Earth’s polar regions’ from its Dragon spacecraft. Yesterday (April 1) at around 9:46pm, a Falcon 9 rocket &#...
The partial solar eclipse of March 2025 did not disappoint as observers turned their eyes and cameras to the sky. Partial solar eclipse from Nuuk, Greenland, March 29, 2025. (Image credit: Leon Neal/...
A lot of spectacular things happen at night, and luckily there is someone to capture them while we’re sleeping tight in our beds. Photographer Timothy Joseph Elzinga was recently woken up by his 2-y...
On January 28, the Voyager 1 probe crossed a symbolic milestone, reaching a distance of 25 billion kilometers from Earth. This was confirmed by tracker data on NASA’s website, which monitors the spa...
The Earth’s magnetic field is a dynamic force that has fascinated scientists for centuries. One of its most intriguing aspects is the movement of the magnetic poles, particularly the North Magne...
The partial solar eclipse of March 2025 did not disappoint as observers turned their eyes and cameras to the sky. Partial solar eclipse from Nuuk, Greenland, March 29, 2025. (Image credit: Leon Neal/...
The so-called Hycean planet K2–18 b is around twice the size of Earth and orbits in the habitable zone of a star located 120 light-years from our solar system. An illustration of the exoplanet K2–...