Scientists have drawn up the most accurate map of Antarctica, offering background to the continent’s response to climate change.

Mercury is a world of extremes: scorching surface temperatures, polar ice, a surprisingly strong magnetic field, and a metallic core that defies expectations. Discover how Mariner 10’s groundbreaking ...

And in one of the most remote corners of the planet, beneath Antarctica, gravity is at its weakest. In a new study published ...

Cryo Archive is the fourth map in Marathon. Unlike the other maps in the game it isn't set on Tau Ceti IV. Instead it consists of the first floor of the ...

Using the Webb telescope, scientists discovered an unexpectedly cold, dense region within Io’s auroral footprint in Jupiter’s northern lights.

A unique technique allowed astronomers to see the early universe as a "sea of light" and explore the effects of gravity and ...

A new modeling study suggests that salt left behind on sea ice could have made the planet even brighter and colder as global glaciation began.

Scientists discover that giant columns of softer ice within the Greenland ice sheet behave like pasta boiling, due to ...

Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where gravity is slightly weaker than expected. Scientists have traced this “gravity ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and 2020, when one-fifth of its associated ice shelf broke off as massive ...

New images of Uranus show the planet in blue, the upper atmosphere in red, auroras in lighter red spots and rings in white. ESA / Webb, NASA, CSA, STScI, P. Tiranti, H. Melin, M. Zamani (ESA / Webb) ...

HELSINKI, March 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly a quarter of Antarctica's coast-reaching glaciers are in retreat, shedding the equivalent of one Greater Los Angeles every three years, according to a ...