Scientists Warn Antarctica Is Melting From Below - The Weather Channel

And that means melting is happening faster than we thought. Here's the full story.

Cretaceous Bird from China Had Pair of Tail Feathers Twice as Long as Its Body - Sci.News

Named Plumadraco bankoorum, the newly-described species of enantiornithine bird lived in what is now northeastern China during the Cretaceous period, roughly 121 million years ago.

New evidence suggests Saturn's rings are younger than the dinosaurs — and for most of the planet's history, the Saturn you picture may never have existed - Space Daily

The headline claim, in the form it usually arrives, is that Saturn’s rings are around 400 million years old. The actual finding, published by Sascha Kempf and colleagues in Science Advances in May 2023, is more careful than that. Using the last data from Cass…

An Unknown Object Passed Between Earth And A Star In The Large Magellanic Cloud, In An Event That Lasted An Hour - IFLScience

According to the team, "Phoebe" is five orders of magnitude more likely to be part of our own galaxy and may have formed in the first few seconds of our universe.

In 1965, a 30-year-old cosmonaut named Alexei Leonov became the first human to walk in space — and somewhere in the middle of the live broadcast, while the world was watching the Soviet Union's greatest propaganda triumph, mission control quietly cut t - Space Daily

On 18 March 1965, at 07:00 GMT, the Soviet spacecraft Voskhod 2 lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome carrying two cosmonauts: Pavel Belyayev, the mission commander, and Alexei Leonov, then thirty years old, the man assigned to make the first spacewalk in human…

Green stones buried with Panama's ancient chiefs confirmed as Colombian emeralds - Phys.org

More than 1,000 years ago, Panama elites were buried together with translucent green stones long suspected to be emeralds. However, scientific analysis confirming the suspicion has never been conducted. Now, scientists have confirmed for the first time that t…

Another T. rex debuts: A marine apex predator named Tylosaurus rex - CNN

There’s a newly crowned T. rex. This one, called Tylosaurus rex, was a tyrant of the sea and mosasaur spanning up to 43 feet in length.

NASA Unveils Next Generation Of Moon Cars As Plans For A Permanent Lunar Base Take Shape - Jalopnik

The return to the Moon isn't just a far-fetched fantasy anymore, but a tangible near future.

A rare blue micromoon arrives this weekend and won't be back until December 2028. Here's what to expect. - CBS News

A rare blue micromoon will appear in night skies this weekend. Here's what to expect.

Chandrayaan-2 finds strong evidence for ice in 'doubly-shadowed' lunar craters - The Times of India

Science News: BENGALURU: Scientists working with India’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft have discovered strong evidence of ice buried beneath the floor of the Moon’s sout.

Chandrayaan-2 finds strong evidence for ice in 'doubly-shadowed' lunar craters - The Times of India

Astronaut captures aurora magic from the ISS photo of the day for May 28, 2026 - Space

This is one spectacular photograph.

Growing Stem Cells in Space to Improve Cancer and Disease Treatments - NASA (.gov)

Expedition 74 astronauts aboard the International Space Station are continuing research efforts to manufacture large quantities of stem cells for therapies on

Rare blue micromoon sets up for stunning celestial show this weekend - Scripps News

Get set for a rare blue micromoon this weekend — a blue moon that's also the most distant and smallest-looking full moon of the year.

Dinosaurs may have faced a dying world before the asteroid hit - Earth.com

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

Scientists Took a Look Inside Earth’s Core—and Made a Surprising Discovery - Yahoo

No one knows why the river of liquid iron flowing 1,400 miles beneath our feet just reversed course.