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The rotation of the Earth’s solid inner core may have recently paused and could be reversing, according to a study published in Nature Geoscience this week. These findings indicate that changes in the rotation could occur on a decadal scale and could aid our understanding of how processes deep in …

It took two years — and 21,400 shots — to capture an astonishing view of your spiraled galactic home, the Milky Way. On Jan. 18, astronomers released a “gargantuan” survey of the Milky Way as part of an ambitious project called the “Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey.” They captured this …

The Earth’s protective ozone layer is “on track” to fully recover, according to a new assessment backed by the United Nations. A scientific assessment found that by around 2066, over the Antarctic, by 2045 over the Arctic, and by 2040 for the rest of the world, levels should return to …

The effects of human activity from climate change to pollution are “devastating” marine life, with nearly a tenth of underwater plants and animals assessed so far threatened with extinction, the latest Red List of Threatened Species showed on Friday. The report’s release coincides with a U.N. summit on nature in …

Scientists have revived a virus that had been trapped in the Siberian permafrost for nearly 50,000 years, bolstering concerns that global warming will lead to ancient pathogens being released. That the microbe was still capable of infecting cells highlights the danger of so-called zombie viruses emerging from thawing soils, researchers …

The animals on a Chinese farm, filmed walking in circles for days, may be suffering from claustrophobia A scientist has offered a rather sad explanation for a bizarre phenomenon in which hundreds of sheep were seen walking in circles for 12 days on a farm in China. Matt Bell, a …

The European Space Agency on Wednesday named the first ever “parastronaut” in a major step towards allowing people with physical disabilities to work and live in space. The 22-nation agency said it had selected former British Paralympic sprinter John McFall as part of a new generation of 17 recruits picked …

The uncrewed mission around the moon will pave the way for a crewed flight test and future human lunar exploration. Nasa’s Artemis moon mission has successfully lifted off Earth, heralding a new era for lunar exploration which will eventually see humans return to the moon. After a series of failed …

An asteroid discovered by a group of American scientists is the largest potentially hazardous one found in over eight years A giant asteroid could potentially cross paths with Earth, a group of American scientists has warned, adding that the one they recently discovered is the biggest detected in over eight …

The ‘potentially hazardous’ celestial body will miss our planet by around 2 million kilometers, the US space agency says An asteroid the size of a large skyscraper is zipping past Earth around Halloween at a relatively close distance of just over 2 million kilometers, according to NASA estimates. The celestial …

The chaos of space has never looked so spectacular in high definition. NASA’s most eagle-eyed observatory so far has done it again. The James Webb Space Telescope has returned an image of the famous “Pillars of Creation” in infrared light that’s the sharpest, most detailed portrait of the spectacular star-forming …

Ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harboring an underground world teeming with microscopic organisms, French scientists reported Monday. But if they existed, these simple life forms would have altered the atmosphere so profoundly that they triggered a Martian Ice Age and snuffed themselves out, the researchers concluded. …

A supercomputer simulation suggests it formed quite rapidly after a larger body hit Earth The Moon may have formed in hours, rather than in months or years as has been believed, according to an advanced astrophysical model devised by NASA scientists with the aid of supercomputers, and published last week …

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology has been awarded to Svante Paabo for his discoveries about the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution, the prize-giving organization announced on Monday. “The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or …

“Breathtaking” images of a stellar nursery in the Orion Nebula taken by the James Webb Space Telescope are revealing intricate details about how stars and planetary systems form. The images, released Monday, shed light on an environment similar to our own solar system when it formed more than 4.5 billion …

La Niña has a devastating impact because of its effect on weather and climate Changing temperatures around the world have led to several climate emergencies so far in 2022, from historic flooding in Pakistan that’s displaced millions of people to the rapid melting of a major glacier in Antarctica. Parts …

Like something out of Jurassic Park, a Dallas-based genetics company announced Tuesday it is working to resurrect Australia’s extinct Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine, to slow biodiversity loss and climate change.

A team of researchers led by astronomers in the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Physics & Astronomy has found a previously overlooked treasure trove of massive black holes in dwarf galaxies.

Global power grids are about to face their biggest test in decades with electricity generation strangled in the world’s largest economies.

The breakthrough experiment sees seeds germinate in lunar samples collected during NASA’s Apollo missions decades ago.