Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier stunned scientists by retreating eight kilometers in just two months, with nearly half of it ...

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

A growing body of peer-reviewed research and recent preprints points to statistical warning signs that the Atlantic ...

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s that theorized that when a star underwent direct collapse, it would leave ...

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...

The United States is preparing to shut down its only dedicated research icebreaker in the Southern Hemisphere, the Nathaniel B. Palmer. This ship has been the backbone of U.S. Antarctic research for ...

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Aug. 10 (UPI) --A beloved and unique geologic feature in Utah's Glen Canyon National Recreation Area is no more following the collapse this week of the Double Arch sandstone formation in Utah, U.S.