‘Zombie Worm’ awakens after 24,000 years: Scientists revive a frozen worm that can survive freezing, starvation and even reproduce without partner‘Zombie Worm’ revived by scientists: A 24,000-year-old microscopic worm, a bdelloid rotifer, has been revived from Siberian permafrost, ast...
Comet 3I/ATLAS gushed a greenhouse gas 80 times more powerful than CO₂ at warming Earth’s atmosphere as it passed the SunInterstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, the third of its kind, is revealing its composition as it heads back into deep space. Scientists detected incr...
What Can Antarctic Ice Tell Us About Climate History?Antarctic ice cores offer a direct window into Earth's past atmosphere, revealing greenhouse gas levels from millennia ago. These frozen ti...
Beneath the Greenland Sea, Frozen Methane Towers Hide an Entire Ecosystem: How Do Creatures Survive Here?Scientists discovered towering methane ice structures and a thriving ecosystem at Molloy Ridge in the Greenland Sea. These deep-sea formati...
From pale to deep blue: The different shades of Neptune and Uranus explainedA key middle layer of methane haze makes Uranus appear pale blue, against Neptune’s royal blue.
IIT-Madras scientists create 'space fuel' in labIIT Madras researchers formed hydrates in vacuum, one thousand billion times below the atmospheric pressure called ultra-high vacuum (UHV) ...
- Space-like environment can produce life's building blocks: Study
Toronto, Dec 13 (IANS) Giving some credence to the view that life could well have originated in space, a new study has shown that a number ...
- What shaped Pluto's huge icy heart?
London, Sep 20 (IANS) Researchers believe they now know the origin of the large heart-shaped nitrogen glacier revealed in 2015 on Pluto by ...
NASA finds giant 'bite mark' on Pluto's surfaceResearchers suggest it may have been caused by a process known as sublimation - the transition of a substance from a solid to a gas.
NASA probe unveils Pluto's striking surface variationsThe first published results from the historic flyby of Pluto by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in July have unveiled the icy-dwarf planet's...
'Snakeskin' textured mountains spotted on PlutoAn image of Pluto taken by New Horizons unveiled bizarrely textured mountains, informally named the Tartarus Dorsa, rise up along Pluto's d...
Scientists create new super-low density type of iceThe advance will help remove pipe-blocking clathrates from natural gas and thereby improve the energy efficiency of extraction, researchers...
Mangalyaan searching for Earth 2.0! 'Methane discovery' to give alien-seekers heartLife could exist on exoplanets (planets attached to stars other than our Sun). The Kepler spacecraft identified 3601 unconfirmed planetary ...
Ancient microbe colonies found living under 800 metres of ice in AntarcticIn a major breakthrough, scientists have finally proved that life exists in a lake buried under half a mile (800 meters) of ice on the west...
World Bank releases new report on climate change, global warmingReductions of these so-called short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) would slow rapid melting in mountain regions with glaciers, like the H...
Scientists stunned as Arctic ice cover plummets to record lowIn what is being described as a global disaster, Arctic sea ice has fallen to its minimum extent for the year, covering just 3.41 million s...
- Japan, US say to cooperate on new 'ice' energy
Japan and the United States on Saturday agreed to cooperate on research into methane hydrate, known as the "ice that burns" which is seen a...