As humans fiddle with the planet's thermostat, scientists are piecing together Greenland's history by drilling ice cores to analyze how the climate crisis has impacted the island country over the years. The further down they drilled, the further they went…
Romanian authorities said they have seized nearly $4 million worth of assets belonging to controversial internet personality Andrew Tate over the past week as he and his brother are investigated on allegations of human trafficking and rape.Roughly 18 million lei,…
Extremely rare -- and extremely adorable.The Chester Zoo in Cheshire, England, has welcomed the birth of a Western chimpanzee, the most endangered subspecies of chimpanzees.The zoo announced the baby boy's birth in a Thursday news release. The little one, born…
Tens of thousands of people protested in Tel Aviv Saturday night against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government's proposed changes to the Israeli judicial system.Despite pouring rain over the city, police estimated that more than 80,000 people flooded…
There are more than 5,000 known worlds beyond our solar system.Since the 1990s, astronomers have used ground and space-based telescopes to search for signs of planets beyond our tiny corner of the universe.Exoplanets are notoriously difficult to directly image because…
A study has found that dolphins are unable to communicate as effectively when exposed to human-generated noises, forcing them to change their sounds much like people do when shouting.An international team of researchers from the University of Bristol, the Dolphin…
The United Arab Emirates has appointed the head of one of the world's largest oil producers to preside over the UN's COP28 climate summit, in a move activists warned could undermine this year's global conference.Sultan Al Jaber, CEO of the…
Almost 40 million years ago a flower bloomed in a Baltic conifer forest. Dripping tree resin encased the petals and pollen, forever showcasing an ephemeral moment in our planet's past.Scientists have taken a fresh look at the unique amber fossil,…
The James Webb Space Telescope can add another cosmic accomplishment to its list: The space observatory has been used to confirm the existence of an exoplanet for the first time.The celestial body, known as LHS 475 b and located outside…
Russian space agency Roscosmos will launch an uncrewed spacecraft, Soyuz MS-23, to the International Space Station to serve as a return vehicle for cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio after the vehicle in which they…
The world's oceans were the warmest on record for the fourth year in row in 2022, a troubling sign of the climate crisis caused by humans pumping heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere.A study by an international team of scientists from…
Astronomers might have solved the mystery behind an unusually brightening star.University of Washington doctoral student Anastasios Tzanidakis and research assistant professor of astronomy James Davenport were searching for "stars behaving strangely" when they received an alert about a potential stellar…
A rocket operated by a California-based start-up failed near the coast of Alaska Tuesday, marking yet another mishap for companies hoping to offer their services to launch scores of small satellites into orbit.The privately held ABL Space Systems attempted to…
A NASA mission has spotted an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting a small star about 100 light-years away.The planet, named TOI 700 e, is likely rocky and 95% the size of our world. The celestial body is the fourth planet to be…
Two supermassive black holes have been spotted feasting on cosmic materials as two galaxies in distant space merge — and are the closest to colliding black holes astronomers have ever observed.Astronomers spotted the pair while using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter…
The last eight years have been the eight warmest on record as the growing concentration of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere pushes global temperatures toward a dangerous tipping point, a new report shows.An analysis by the European Union's Copernicus Climate…
A recently discovered comet will soon make an appearance in the night sky for the first time in 50,000 years.Discovered on March 2, 2022 by astronomers using the Zwicky Transient Facility's wide-field survey camera at the Palomar Observatory in San…
In rare good news for the planet, Earth's ozone layer is on track to recover completely within decades, as ozone-depleting chemicals are phased out across the world, according to a new United Nations-backed assessment.The ozone layer protects the planet from…
A defunct NASA satellite has fallen back to Earth after 38 years orbiting the planet.The Earth Radiation Budget Satellite, known as ERBS, was launched in 1984 aboard space shuttle Challenger.Until 2005, data from ERBS helped researchers investigate how Earth absorbed…
Welcome to a new year, where fresh wonder already awaits.Rome has often been called the Eternal City. Ancient Romans took pride in their metropolis and viewed it as an unshakable pinnacle, and poets such as Virgil and Ovid made similar…
