Illustration of a distant supernova colliding with Earth (Image courtesy of Robert Lee (created with Canva)) New research suggests that fatal explosions of massive stars, known as supernovae, may have significantly affected our planet’s climate throughout its long history. Analyzing…
Video historians prepare for Revolutionary War-era naval vessel exhibit in Albany A ship dating back to the American Revolution was found at the World Trade Center site and is now on display at the museum. (Source: New York State Museum)…
(Image credit: Getty Images/da-kuk) A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has the ability to predict key atmospheric events faster and with greater accuracy than some of the world's most popular forecasting systems. The model, called Aurora, is trained on more…
The largest ocean basin is the Pacific, followed by the Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Arctic. (Image credit: FrankRamspott via Getty Images) The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean on the planet, and is more than five times wider than our…
Slag is a by-product of steel plants. (Photo by CHUNYIP WONG/Getty Images) Industrial waste can turn into rock in just 35 years, rather than thousands or millions of years as previously thought, according to new research. The discovery challenges scientists'…
The white diamonds indicate 20 of the 83 small galaxies showing active star formation identified by JWST. The researchers say these galaxies may have emitted enough ultraviolet light to trigger the Era of Reionization. (Image credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/Bezanson et al. 20