Earth’s magnetic north pole, which has been wandering faster than expected in recent years, has now crossed the prime meridian. The team of researchers that maintain the World Magnetic Model (WMM) has updated it and released it a year ahead … Read More
For the first time, an experiment has confirmed that the laws of thermodynamics apply even at the quantum level – which means that even in the quantum world, you can’t unspill that glass of milk. The second law of thermodynamics … Read More
Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the Solar System, deeply marks the surface of Mars; a tectonic crack widened by erosion and marked by nearby channels potentially carved by water. It turns out that some of that water might still … Read More
An astrophotographer has revealed his ‘clearest ever photo of the Sun.’ Andrew McCarthy layered 150,000 individual photographs of the Sun to represent the intricate and stunning detail of the solar system’s star. The photographer, known on Instagram as @cosmic-background, defines … Read More
A massive explosion flattened entire forests in a remote region of Eastern Siberia along the Tunguska River in the early morning of June 30, 1908. Surprisingly, the explosion left no crater, posing a mystery that has puzzled scientists ever since: … Read More
NASA is getting ready to launch a new set of X-ray eyes into space. The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE, is the first space observatory of its kind, designed to study some of the universe’s most energetic objects – … Read More