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.

First Commercial Company to Successfully Land on the Moon

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander softly touched down in Mare Crisium carrying 10 NASA instruments. 

Physicists Create Lab-Grown Diamond Even Harder Than Natural

The team put graphite under an intense amount of pressure, before heating it to 1,800 K. The newly produced diamond has a hardness of 155 gigapascals (GPa). Natural diamond, by comparison, tops out at around 110 GPa in hardness.

Ultramassive Black Hole Could Lie at The Heart of Cosmic Horseshoe

In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies. New research reveals the presence of an Ultra-Massive Black Hole in the foreground galaxy with a staggering 36 billion solar masses.

Scientists have discovered a 3 billion-year-old beach buried on Mars

Data from Chinese Zhurong rover provide an unprecedented look into rocks buried near a proposed shoreline billions of years old. The researchers claim to have found beach deposits from an ancient Martian ocean.

Measures of a 'Double Magic' Atom Reveal an Unexpected Surprise Inside

Atomic nuclei may be more complex than we thought, and may have implications for our understanding of the formation of heavy elements.

NASA: New Study on Why Mars is Red Supports Potentially Habitable Past

A new international study partially funded by NASA on how Mars got its iconic red color adds to evidence that Mars had a cool but wet and potentially habitable climate in its ancient past.

Plastic Ice VII - A Component of Ice World Interiors

In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states – solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact many more phases, some of which are so strange they’re referred to as exotic.