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Antarctica ‘ghost particle’ observatory gets major upgrade that could ‘pave the way’ to physics breakthroughs  Live Science World’s largest neutrino detector gets 650-sensor boost to track supernova blasts  Interesting Engineering The IceCube experiment is ready to uncover more secrets of the universe  Phys.org Hundreds of new ‘eyes’ buried in the Antarctic ice  TU Dortmund 10,000 Sensors in the Antarctic

As the world shut down due to COVID, causing less traffic like trains, planes and automobiles, scientists expected the planet to get a break from harmful pollutants like nitrogen dioxide and methane. But curiously, scientists saw a surge in methane, which is the second-largest contributor to climate warming after carbon dioxide, according to the European

NASA’s Artemis 2 SLS rocket lurks behind the Crew-12 Falcon 9 rocket. (Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett) Two crew-worth spacecraft appear to sit side by side on their rockets in this NASA picture captured at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, one bound for low-Earth orbit and the other for the far side of the moon.

Stephen William Hawking was a British theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Born on January 8, 1942 in Oxford, Hawking is considered one of the most influential scientists of the second half of the 20th century due to his contributions to fundamental physics and cosmology. Hawking completed his undergraduate studies at University College, Oxford, where he earned

The biggest planet in our Solar System just got a little smaller. Okay, not physically, but our measurements of Jupiter just got more precise, and it turns out there’s slightly less of the giant than we thought. According to the new data, Jupiter’s radius measures 71,488 kilometers (44,421 miles) at its equator, and the planet

The next major accident involving falling space debris is not a matter of if, but when. And when it happens, the question will not be why a single satellite failed to burn up, but why no regulator was counting the cumulative risk from 70,000 of them. For two decades, spacefaring nations have operated under a

But the key finding was that it could synthesize a sequence that base-pairs with itself, and then synthesize itself by copying that sequence. This was horribly inefficient and took months, but it happened. Throughout these experiments, the fidelity averaged about 95 percent, meaning that, in copying itself, it would make an average of two to

Refresh 2026-02-13T09:27:03.934Z Night sky this weekend Saturday, Feb. 14: Zodiacal light in the west (after dark) See the zodiacal light after dusk on Feb. 13. (Image credit: Barry Burgess / 500px via Getty Images) February is a great time to hunt for the zodiacal light — but you’ll need a dark, rural sky free of

Greenland appears much larger than it actually is on most world maps, thanks to the Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style. A recent study reveals how this distortion influences our perception of the Arctic. This isn’t just a small detail, it affects how we view geography and even influence discussions about the Arctic. According to

Jupiter-bound spacecraft turns gaze on solar system trespasser  The Times NASA telescope spots the building blocks for life spewing out of comet 3I/ATLAS  Live Science Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is spraying water across the solar system  ScienceDaily NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Spots 3I/ATLAS’s Bright Envelope  Universe Today NASA space telescope sees interstellar visitor comet 3I/ATLAS flare up while exiting the solar