Himanshu Goenka

While the western parts of the ice sheet are losing mass, fresh ice is accumulating in the east. The central ice sheet, meanwhile, has been stable for the last million years.

The image, released by NASA and the European Space Agency on Thursday, was taken as part of the telescope’s Frontier Fields program.

Such gardens were depicted at the entrances of tombs and also on tomb walls, but had never been physically found till now.

Known for its beaches and volcanoes, the tropical island state has two peaks that are covered in snow for at least 20 days every winter.

The European X-ray free electron laser will officially open early September, but it produced its first X-ray laser light this week.

A new process that uses water could significantly reduce the amount of the greenhouse gas pumped into Earth’s atmosphere.

The new species discovered was one of the last dinosaurs on Earth and was among those that disappeared in the mass extinction event 66 million years ago.

The biggest and most active volcanoes in world were formed when the Pacific tectonic plate changed direction about three million years ago.

NASA released a half-minute movie Wednesday, made from a sequence of images captured by the spacecraft during the first dive of the Grand Finale mission.

A zoomable image released Wednesday by the European Southern Observatory shows the nearby dwarf galaxy in unprecedented detail.

The newly observed crack branches off from the older and much bigger one, is over nine miles long at present and is headed in the direction of the ice-front.

The company already manufactures mass-transit vehicles that run on electricity, and its buses can drive up to 600 miles on a single charge.

Other than the sauropod species from U.S., an old fossil from France sitting in a museum was identified as a brachiosaur relative.

The hypothetical particles could explain the existence of dark matter, and not finding them places limits on where scientists will look for them in the future.

A new study used data from five satellites to track over 30 glaciers in the Antarctic Peninsula and measure their movements since 1992.

The strands that make up spiders’ webs can be stronger than steel while weighing much lesser, and be tougher while still being extremely flexible. Some varieties can also curb growth of bacteria and fungi.

Using light and multiple layers of polymer film, the new method can be used by “anybody with PowerPoint and a projector,” according to researchers who developed it.

The new material could find applications in a large number of fields, such as nanoscale memory, magnetic sensors and spintronic devices.

The “exceptionally well-preserved” fossil of the arthropod sheds light on the evolution of mandibulates — a large and diverse group that includes millipedes, crabs and insects, among others.

“Genes in Space-3” is aimed at preparing, sequencing and identifying the microbes that are occasionally found aboard the International Space Station.

The cosmic microwave background that permeates the universe has a Cold Spot, which is a fraction of a degree colder than its surroundings.

XB091D had slowed down to one revolution every few seconds, but began accelerating again less than one million years ago, and currently revolves once every 1.2 seconds.

The Energy Transitions Commission published a report Tuesday that lays down a roadmap for achieving the targets of the Paris climate agreement.

The spacecraft, which has been studying the Saturn system since 2004, will start its Grand Finale mission Wednesday and end it by plunging into the planet’s atmosphere Sept. 15.

Entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, who is wanted by the United States on multiple charges, filed a complaint against the FBI director for data theft by the agency.

Bodies of the females of Sericomyrmex radioheadi, a fungus-farming ant species, are covered in a white crystal-like layer which is totally absent in males of the species.

The Tianzhou-1 uncrewed cargo ship left Earth aboard a Long March 7 rocket Thursday, and docked with Tiangong-2 two days later.

When the crack eventually becomes big enough for the shelf to calve, it will create one of the biggest icebergs ever recorded in history.

If life can be found in the driest non-polar desert on Earth, it would be a significant step toward searching for signs of life on other planets or moons.