Radio Telescopes Are Revealing a Trove of Faint Circular Objects in The Sky

Radio astronomers see what the naked eye can't. As we study the sky with telescopes that record radio signals rather than light, we end up seeing a lot of circles.

Melting Antarctic ice will slow the world's strongest ocean current

Part of the system that pumps water, heat and nutrients around the globe is at risk. Climate change could slow the Antarctic Circumpolar Current down 20% by 2050.

Water May Have Come Into Existence Far Earlier Than We Ever Realized

Life's most vital elixir may have formed within 200 million years of the Big Bang, new research suggests.

Centre of the Earth could hold large reservoir of iron-helium compounds

In the new work, Hirose and colleagues at other institutions in Japan and Taiwan propose that the iron core of the Earth formed bonds with helium, allowing the core to act as a reservoir. 

This Robot Swarm Can Flow Like Liquid and Support a Humans 'Weight

These robots can flow around obstacles before hardening into weight-bearing tools that push, throw, twist objects like a wrench—and bear up to 150 pounds of weight.

The International Space Station is overly sterile

Astronauts often experience immune dysfunction, skin rashes, and other inflammatory conditions while traveling in space. These issues could be due to the excessively sterile nature of spacecraft. 

Star mergers produce universe's highest-energy particles

Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays are the highest-energy particles in the universe, whose energies are more than a million times what can be achieved by humans.

Melting Antarctic ice sheets are slowing Earth's strongest ocean current

This melting has implications for global climate indicators, including sea level rise, ocean warming and viability of marine ecosystems.

NASA's Hubble provides bird's-eye view of Andromeda galaxy's ecosystem

Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full Moon. 

Speedy white dwarf planets are more likely to be habitable

Speedy’ planets orbiting faster in smaller orbits around white dwarfs are warmer than expected and more likely to maintain habitable conditions than the planets around the sun-like stars.

Lucy Captures Its First Images of Main-Belt Asteroid Donaldjohanson

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will fly by the small asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025.

Study Reveals How Earth's Orbit Triggers Ice Ages

New research has demonstrated the precise relationship between past ice ages and each wobble, tilt, and angle of the planet's path, unlocking a new tool for predicting the future fluctuations of our global climate.

Extreme Heat Can Accelerate Aging, New Research Finds

Cumulative heat stress changes our epigenetics – how our cells turn on or off gene switches in response to environmental pressure.  Longer periods of extreme heat accelerated ageing in older people by more than two years.

Giant glaciers pulverised Earth's ancient rocks, setting the stage for complex life

Hundreds of millions of years ago, rocks crushed under kilometres of ice injected vital nutrients into Earth's oceans.

Science of Knots Could Help Us Imagine Our Universe's Weird Shape

When you look around the Universe you live in, it looks like a 3D space, just like the surface of the Earth looks like a 2D space. However, just like the Earth, if you were to look at the Universe as a whole, it could be a more complicated space.