Wednesday marks the winter solstice for us – the shortest day of the year. But what does that mean? Astronomical winter will arrive at 5:44 Wednesday morning with temperatures in the 20s, basically seasonable for the date.
Antimatter is weird stuff. It was created during the Big Bang along with traditional matter, but it has the exact opposite properties of the kinds of matter we know: anti-electrons (or positrons) have a positive charge rather than negative, for example …
It can be easy to forget that an alien world lives right beneath us – the mysterious ecosystem of the deep ocean, where the creatures of your nightmares lurk far below the surface.
The North Pole is forecast to warm up to 10°C (50°F) higher than normal tomorrow. For the second year in a row in December, and for the second month running, Arctic temperatures will hit alarming highs.
Who (you might ask) is David Brearley? Brearley plays a critical, and entirely accidental, role in climate change because of his position as the chair of the Committee on Postponed Parts within the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
Measurements made by Europe’s Swarm satellites suggest a river of liquid iron deep within the Earth. Monitor’s Best: Top 5. For Evangelicals, Trump brings new hope – and a thorny question · What’s behind push for Electoral College to defy Trump …
An unexpected explosive eruption rocked Bogoslof in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory. The eruption was noticed by pilots flying near the remote volcano along with satellite imagery (see below) that revealed an …
In March 2016, the world met Casper, a milky-white deep-sea octopus that makes its home 2.5 miles beneath the ocean surface. Now, a new study suggests that the newly discovered cephalopod could be under threat from deep sea mining.
NASA is working to resolve an increasingly frustrating problem with the Curiosity Rover’s drill, which has stalled, leaving the Martian explorer out of action on the slopes of Mount Sharp for more than two weeks.
Shortly after Monterey Bay Whale Watch took about a dozen hopeful whale-watchers out to sea last Tuesday, the group received a call from a fishing boat.
With Christmas approaching, children around the world will be hoping to get a glimpse of Santa as he takes to the skies. And it seems that this year, parents may be able to keep the magic alive by showing their children proof of Father Christmas in action.
The Mariana Trench, a massive rift stretching from Japan to Australia, contains the deepest sections of the world’s oceans. Despite decades of research and even manned missions to the bottom of the trench, researchers are still discovering new species …
Animal expert Coyote Peterson had, so he travelled to Costa Rica in search of the bullet ant – infamous for its sting which is meant to feel similar to being shot.
This sequence of three HiRISE images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the growth of a branching network of troughs carved by thawing carbon dioxide over the span of three Martian years.
A rough-legged hawk–a high Arctic nesting bird–sits warming itself in the sun near the Fargo landfill last Saturday. It was one of eight seen during the Fargo-Moorhead Christmas Bird Count.
Mimas, one of Saturn’s moons, seems to be on a collision course with the planet’s rings. No fear though, it’s simply an illusion in this image snapped by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.
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