Ocean water is pushing miles beneath Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier,” making it more vulnerable to melting than previously thought, according to new research that used radar data from space to take X-rays of the crucial glacier. When salty, relatively warm ocean water meets ice, it causes “drastic melting” beneath the glacier and may mean global sea… Read More »
Ocean water is pushing miles beneath Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier,” making it more vulnerable to melting than previously thought, according to new research that used radar data from space to take X-rays of the crucial glacier. When salty, relatively warm ocean water meets ice, it causes “drastic melting” beneath the glacier and may mean global sea… Read More »
At 7 a.m. on the first morning of our expedition, a voice over the intercom sang, “Humpbacks at the bow – all guests to the bridge.” Blinking away sleep, I ran onto the deck in my dressing gown, and a bright white glow filled my eyes from the panoramic windows. Meters in front of our… Read More »
Historian Thomas R Henry wrote in 1950: “The Weddell Sea is, by the testimony of all those who have sailed in its iceberg-filled waters, the most dangerous and dismal region on Earth.” These are the turbulent, ship-shattering waters where Ernest Shackleton lost the Endurance. So common sense might suggest that tourists stay away, especially as… Read More »
As I push down the red airlock and step into our space station, I wonder: Will I eventually lose my mind and have to be pulled out? After all, in the popular television series For All Mankind, one of the first astronauts to live on the Moon for an extended period of time does just… Read More »
In 2014, a fishing boat caught a giant squid that New Zealand researchers examined.Marty Melville/AFP via Getty Images Colossal hopes to capture waters around Antarctica, the natural habitat of a giant squid. Squid is large but elusive and difficult to study because it lives thousands of feet under water. Using tourist boats in Antarctica has… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Antarctica’s icy plains are a magnet for meteorite hunters like Maria Valdes, a research scientist at the Field Museum of Natural History and the University of Chicago. Approximately 1000 space rocks are found in the… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Antarctica’s icy plains are a magnet for meteorite hunters like Maria Valdes, a research scientist at the Field Museum of Natural History and the University of Chicago. Approximately 1000 space rocks are found in the… Read More »
Many countries are targeting the Moon as an extraterrestrial target for long-term human existence. It’s highly praised for NASA to once again make a real “footstep” on the Moon through the Artemis program the The way to walk and train to walk towards Mars. Such a future endeavor could in many ways be compared to… Read More »