Cold planets exist throughout our galaxy, even in the galactic bulge, research suggests
Although thousands of planets have been discovered in the Milky Way, most reside less than a few thousand light years from Earth. Yet our Galaxy is more than 100,000 light years across, making it difficult to investigate the Galactic distribution
A massive cavern beneath a West Antarctic glacier is teeming with life
Glaciologists bored 500 meters through the Kamb Ice Stream to access the cavern The coastal plain of the Kamb Ice Stream, a West Antarctic glacier, hardly seems like a coast at all. Stand in this place, 800 kilometers from the South Pole, and you see nothing but flat ice extending
In rare attack, 30 orcas ‘badly wounded’ 2 adult gray whales in California
A pod of about 30 orcas attacked and “badly wounded” two adult gray whales off the coast of California, according to drone footage Stunning new video shows a pod of orcas attacking two adult gray whales in California’s Monterey Bay, in a rare case of predation. Monterey Bay Whale Watch
Bear kills jogger in Italian Alps. What does this mean for the effort to bring bears back to the region?
26-year-old Andrea Papi was jogging on a woodland path when a bear with three cubs attacked and killed him. Italian authorities are deciding what to do with a brown bear that mauled a jogger to death in the northeastern province of Trento. The case has shone a light on the
Cosmic antimatter hints at origins of huge bubbles in our galaxy’s center
The Fermi bubbles may have started life as jets of high-energy charged particles MINNEAPOLIS — Bubbles of radiation billowing from the galactic center may have started as a stream of electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons, new observations suggest. An excess of positrons zipping past Earth suggests that the bubbles
