The spherical shell known as the Oort Cloud is virtually invisible. Its particles are spread so thinly and so far...
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Indonesian volcano eruption leaves people dead and forces large-scale evacuations
The eruption of Indonesia's Lewotobi Laki Laki stratovolcano has killed at least 10 people on the island of Flores after...
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The eruption of one small volcano can affect the climate of the Earth’s hemisphere for a couple of years
Antarctica is dotted with volcanoes, waiting to erupt. And a volcano in Tanzania and volcanoes in Iceland are close to...
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Kamchatka’s Shiveluch Volcano Is Active Again
To date, the Shiveluch volcano is known to have erupted in 1790, 1854, 1879-1883, 1896-1898, 1905, 1927-1929, 1944-1950, 1964, 1980-1981,...
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Cuba hit by series of earthquakes after recent hurricanes
Two powerful earthquakes in eastern Cuba have caused landslides, damage to homes and power lines, and residents of the affected...
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And asteroids have their own satellites
The European Space Agency's Gaia star-gazing mission has once again proven its ability to explore asteroids, discovering potential moons around...
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The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for the invention of machine learning using artificial neural networks
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of...
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Spain suffered from DANA
The rushing water turned narrow streets into death traps and created rivers that tore through homes and businesses, sweeping away...
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Analysis of a sample of asteroid Bennu reveals dust rich in carbon, nitrogen and organic compounds needed for life
Early analysis of a sample of the asteroid Bennu returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed dust rich in carbon,...
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The Erigone family of asteroids are water-rich space rocks that offer a window into the solar system’s past
A family of primitive asteroids is giving astronomers a window into the past as they seek to unravel the history...
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The tsunami impacts in Russia include coastal areas of Kamchatka, the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Island and Primorye
Climate change could trigger giant, deadly tsunamis from Antarctica, a new study warns. Sediment shifting beneath the Antarctic seabed could...
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The day before the earthquake in Primorsky Krai, the water receded from the shore by several tens of meters
Residents of Primorye noticed the strongest low tide in recent times on October 20, which is especially visible in closed...
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Asteroids still pose a danger to our planet. Earth scientists are actively working on this problem
NASA's new NEO Surveyor spacecraft will search for the hardest-to-find asteroids and comets that could pose a threat to our...
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Hera mission to visit previously shot down asteroid Dimorphos to assess impact of its DART collision
Dimorphos is a moon of the near-Earth asteroid Didymos. This binary asteroid system was previously visited by NASA's DART spacecraft,...
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Earth temporarily has a new ‘mini-Moon’
On Sunday, September 29, Earth captured a new “mini-moon” called 2024 PT5. The bus-sized asteroid is expected to orbit our...
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The Draconid meteor shower will be visible tonight
The Draconids meteor shower will reach its peak activity today, on the night of Wednesday, October 9. The number of...
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The Earth’s Crust Doesn’t Stop – Scientists Discover Old and New Continents
Scientists have discovered an unexpected new continent hiding beneath Greenland. Zealandia, thought to be a candidate for Earth's eighth continent,...
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Massive floods, fires that have killed dozens of people are caused by global climate change
Massive floods that have engulfed Poland and Central European countries and caused the deaths of dozens of people are caused...
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The current year 2024 has broken the heat records of the previous year
NASA considers the summer of 2024 to be the hottest to date. July 22, 2024, was the hottest day on...
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Rising Arctic temperatures will impact global economy. Scientists monitor Arctic transformation under climate change
Scientists from the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry (GEOKHI RAS) have discovered a harmful increase in the biological...
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The southernmost continent, Antarctica, is warming and blooming
The remains of a 90-million-year-old rainforest have been discovered beneath the ice of Antarctica. Now, warmer temperatures are melting glaciers...
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Melting Glaciers: Andes, Altai, Alps and China May Be Completely Ice-Free
Isotopic analysis of rocks near the Andes glaciers has shown that these glaciers have become smaller than at any time...
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Land degradation and desertification associated with climate change are observed worldwide
The Volgograd Region in the Russian Federation has been named one of the most desertified territories in Russia. In just...
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Accelerating global warming is changing ocean conditions and rainfall patterns
Acceleration of global warming could cause serious climate change. According to scientists, the consequences could include a rise in sea...
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Melting polar ice caused by climate change is redistributing the Earth’s mass and increasing the length of the day
Researchers used more than 120 years of data to understand how melting ice, depleting groundwater and rising sea levels are...
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Climate is changing the Earth’s flora and water bodies
Decreasing oxygen levels in water pose a critical threat to nature and society on Earth. On average, lakes around the...
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Video reports from other planets and systems? Our Sun can provide such an opportunity
Plans to use a solar lens date back to the 1970s. More recently, astronomers have proposed developing a fleet of...
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The mystery of solar winds is almost solved
Since the 1960s, astronomers have wondered how the Sun’s supersonic “solar wind,” a stream of energetic particles that flows into...
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Boris and Annette caused a flood in Europe, there are victims. Unusually heavy rains are falling in the Sahara
Boris hit central and eastern Europe, bringing strong winds, heavy rain and flooding. The storm also hit parts of Austria,...
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Solar flares and magnetic storms pose a real danger
About once every thousand years, Earth experiences an extreme solar event that can cause severe damage to the ozone layer...
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Solar flares continue to break records
NOAA Is Rewriting the Book on How to Rank Solar Storms: The Capabilities, the Science, and Our Understanding of the...
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What are Hurricanes? Rescue and Evacuation Plan. Latest Hurricane and Storm News
The shift from El Niño to La Niña has made for longer, more severe hurricane seasons. This year’s hurricane season...
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Radioactive tritium from Fukushima found near the Southern Kuril Islands
Laboratory analyses of the first water samples obtained during the expedition of the research vessel Akademik Oparin showed elevated tritium...
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Increased number of extreme forest fires due to climate change has become a global problem
Energetically extreme fires have a huge impact on the Earth system, releasing huge plumes of smoke into the atmosphere comparable...
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Jet fuel and fires are new global air pollutants
Wildfires in Canada have emitted more CO2 than almost all of the world's countries combined in a year. They have...
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Abnormally restless Sun: the number of solar flares has increased several times
The Sun triggers an X-class solar flare, sending coronal mass ejections toward Earth. Active sunspot AR3777 in early August 2024...
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Invasive house mice eat wandering albatrosses alive in southern South Africa
Marion Island's wandering albatrosses can't protect themselves from an invasive mouse population that's eating the birds alive, but conservationists say...
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Rogue planets captured by the Sun are able to make their way into the solar system
The Sun scoops up rogue planets as they fly by. The Sun is capable of capturing both small planets and...
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The Corona Paradox of the Sun
Scientists have long wondered why the hot charged particles in our sun’s atmosphere get hotter as they move away from...
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The Heliosphere – a new object for study
Scientists call the region of space that the Sun influences the heliosphere, but without an interstellar probe, they know little...
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Earth’s plate tectonics began earlier than 4 billion years ago
New research suggests that plate tectonics began earlier than 4 billion years ago — shortly after Earth formed. New research...
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The earth’s crust is unstable
The Earth is starting to shake because of global warming. Tectonic plates are moving apart regardless of warming: the giant...
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Earthquakes continue to rage along the Pacific coast
A strong earthquake occurred off the coast of Sakhalin on August 10, a powerful earthquake occurred off the coast of...
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Mars’ Surface Turns Out to Be Younger Than Expected, Planet Still Seismically Active
The results suggest that the Red Planet experiences between 180 and 260 meteorite impacts per year, and these objects can...
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Mars rover Perseverance finds interesting rock that may have harbored microbial life billions of years ago
Analysis by instruments on board the rover shows that the rock has qualities that meet the definition of a possible...
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Scientists are preparing to populate and terraform Mars
We could terraform Mars with desert moss. Among its recent discoveries, the rover found rocks made of pure sulfur. From...
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A whole field of sulfur rocks, the latest discoveries on Mars and amazing photos
As the rover ascends, it moves along the Martian timeline, allowing scientists to study how Mars evolved from a planet...
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Martian Phobos and Deimos Hide the Secret of Their Origin
For years, researchers have puzzled over the origins of Phobos and its twin, Deimos. Some have suggested that the moons...
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The mechanism by which black holes glow remains an unsolved mystery for scientists
A team of astronomers studied 16 supermassive black holes that shoot powerful beams into space to track where the beams,...
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James Webb Telescope Reveals Supermassive Black Holes of the Early Universe
Peering deep into space and time, two teams using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have studied an exceptionally bright...
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Several black holes have been discovered in our Milky Way galaxy. At the galaxy’s heart is a dormant one 4.2 million times larger than the Sun
The black holes at the center of the Milky Way (Earth’s home galaxy) and Andromeda (one of our closest galactic...
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Supermassive black holes protect galaxies from growing too large
Galaxies could live longer if supermassive black holes act as their “hearts and lungs,” keeping them breathing and preventing them...
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Black Hole Systems: Gravitational Waves of Space-Time Learned to Catch on Earth
Astronomers have discovered supermassive black holes with masses millions or billions of times that of the Sun in most massive...
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Anomalous ‘light’ black holes are primordial in the Universe
Black holes are formed either by the collapse of a massive star or by the merger of heavy objects. However,...
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Latest news on the theory of structure and origin of black holes
Supermassive black holes are thought to be born from successive mergers of smaller black holes, each bringing with it angular...
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The black hole in Omega Centauri is closer to Earth than the black hole at the center of the Milky Way
Most known black holes are either extremely massive, like the supermassive black holes found at the cores of large galaxies,...
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The Arctic and Antarctica continue to melt rapidly, revealing ancient things hidden beneath the ice
The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. Ice and snow are melting, and Arctic sea ice is...
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The obvious consequences of global warming are already being observed: a blow to the world economy, drying up of reservoirs, floods and earthquakes
Scientists have discovered the many faces of global warming: it not only accelerates the melting of glaciers, raising the level...
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Glaciers in the Andes, Alaska, and Kamchatka could disappear in the next 50 years. Venezuela is already without glaciers
Glaciers in Peru's Central Andes could disappear by the 2050s, a study says. A village in Checacupa, in the southern...
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June 2024 was the hottest on record on the planet. Summer 2023 is the hottest in 2,000 years (or 10,000 years)
Last June was the hottest month on record and the 13th month in a row to set a monthly temperature...
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The mortality rate in megacities from heat waves is 46% higher than in villages. By 2050, this figure will increase
A person who is 40 today will be about 70 years old in 2050. The world is undergoing unprecedented and...
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Global warming or Ice Age? Dangerous games of carbon dioxide
According to research by experts from the University of Colorado Boulder, more and more fresh water has been entering the...
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Extreme heat waves cause deadly heat stress and fires around the world
Unbearable temperatures exceeding 40° and 50° are increasingly observed in many parts of the world, paralyzing society and creating a...
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