3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (583+ words) The fires are burning peatlands, which can release more particulate matter into the air than other wildfires By Adam Kovac edited by Claire Cameron El Niño conditions are helping to fuel wildfires across Indonesia, leaving some 100,000 people ill or injured,…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (302+ words) The looming El Niño conditions, combined with the warming effects of climate change, contributed to the historic temperatures By Mary Randolph edited by Claire Cameron Visitors to Zakrzówek Lake in Kraków, Poland, cool down in water as a heat wave…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (446+ words) These strange celestial objects have been hiding in plain sight for decades It’s unclear what these objects actually are, but evidence for them has been detected by NASA’s Chandra space telescope for years By Adam Kovac edited by Claire Cameron…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (360+ words) The silliest science awards of the year are here, but the Ig Nobels aren’t just funny business By Adam Kovac edited by Lee Billings From left: Ig Nobel Soil Science Prize winners Marcel van der Heijden, Franz Bender, Atlant Bieri…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (400+ words) The strangest sky in the galaxy The newfound star S301 orbits the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole so closely that its view of the heavens gets twisted There are a lot of weird stars in the universe, but if I had…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (239+ words) In a critical maneuver on Thursday, the mission successfully deployed its two science orbiters—beginning the final phases of its arrival at Mercury By Adam Kovac edited by Claire Cameron An artist’s impression shows the BepiColombo composite spacecraft’s Mercury Transfer…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (588+ words) UN admits exceeding the 1.5 degrees Celsius global warming target is "unavoidable" Blowing past the Paris Agreement's long-time threshold is set to happen “within the next few years,” according to a new report The world is on track to exceed the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (436+ words) The strange structure appears to have formed recently, but nobody can explain exactly why By Adam Kovac edited by Claire Cameron Scientists are baffled after discovering a weird decagon-shaped wave in the atmosphere of the planet Saturn. The ten-sided phenomenon…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (560+ words) After one of the worst natural disasters in the region’s history, attention is turning to the looming super El Niño Mount Everest, located in the Mahalangur Himal subrange of the Himalayas. Rising global temperatures have made high-mountain areas across the…...

2+ week, 7+ hour ago   (518+ words) The XENONnT experiment, in its hunt for dark matter, has detected the rare, feeble glow of neutrinos smacking into electrons By Joseph Howlett edited by Lee Billings Several times over the last few years, deep beneath a mountain in central…...