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January 2020 was Earth’s warmest on record, again
January 2020 was the planet's hottest January in the NOAA global temperature dataset record, which dates back to 1880.
February 15, 2020
Himalayan glacier shows evidence of start of Industrial Revolution
Human beings altered one of the highest peaks in the Himalayas hundreds of years before a person ever set foot there, new research has found.
February 14, 2020
Valentine Venus
Talk about an awesome Valentine's Day activity! Go outside and show your sweetie Venus, the planet of love. Astronomer Guy Ottewell provides a chart and more.
February 13, 2020
Mysterious fast radio burst repeats in 16-day rhythm
For the first time, a fast radio burst has been found to be repeating, in a regular 16-day cycle. The baffling detection from the CHIME radio telescope deepens the mystery of these bizarre intergalactic objects.
February 13, 2020
New timeline rewrites history of Easter Island collapse
Easter Island society did not collapse prior to European contact, and its people continued to build its iconic moai statues for much longer than previously believed, according to a team of researchers.
February 13, 2020
Chance fossil discovery reveals ancient marine reptile
Scientists raced against a rising tide to recover a tantalizing fossil on an island in southeast Alaska. It turned out to be a species new to science.
February 12, 2020
Save the giants, save the planet
Protecting large animals such as elephants and whales, and large plants like the sequoias, has a disproportionate positive impact on the health of the planet and resilience to climate change.
February 12, 2020
Moon and Spica rise at late evening
You'll have to stay up late on February 12, 2020 to view the moon and star Spica - brightest light in the constellation Virgo - rising into your eastern sky.
February 12, 2020
Pine Island Glacier spawns PIGlets
Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier - known as ‘PIG’ for short - has just spawned a huge iceberg. At over 115 square miles (300 square km), this huge berg quickly broke into many ‘PIGlet’ pieces
February 11, 2020
Sand dunes can ‘communicate’ with each other
For the first time, a new experiment from the University of Cambridge has shown how sand dunes "communicate" and interact with each other as they move.
February 11, 2020
