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2025 Winter maximum sea ice extent in Arctic smallest on record

The National Snow and Ice Data Center reports that Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its seasonal maximum extent on March 22, 2025, 10 days later than the 1981-2010 average. Despite the late peak, it was the lowest maximum extent of the 47-year satellite era, which began in 1979. Sea ice concentration across the Northern Hemisphere on March 22, 2025, ranged from 15 percent (medium

April’s full ‘Pink Moon’ rises this weekend — here’s how to see it, and why it’s so special

Also known as the 'Paschal Moon,' April's full 'Pink Moon' will rise alongside Spica, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, on April 12. April's full moon will shine close to Spica, the brightest star in the constellation Virgo. (Image credit: Katrin Ray Shumakov via Getty Images) On Saturday, April 12, look east at dusk to see the next full moon rise into the s

April full moon 2025: The Pink Moon hides one of the brightest stars in the sky

The full moon will occult the star Spica in the Virgo constellation this month. April's full moon is the Pink Moon, rising April 12. It will also be a micromoon, appearing slightly smaller than usual. (Image credit: Getty Images) The full moon of April, called the Pink Moon or Paschal Moon, will occur in the eastern U.S. during the evening hours of April 12, at 8:22 p.m. E

Adorable dire wolf pups mark ‘world’s first de-extinction,’ Colossal Biosciences says

Dire wolves, made famous by HBO's Game of Thrones, have been extinct for around 12,500 years. But thanks to genetic engineers at biotech company Colossal Biosciences, these majestic predators are back. Romulus and Remus are two 6-month-old dire wolves, created by genetically engineering cells from living gray wolves. (Image credit: Colossal Biosciences) Dire wolves wen

How the Sahara Desert Went from a Lush, Inhabited Land to a Wasteland

Today, the Sahara Desert, which covers much of North Africa, is regarded as the world’s largest hot desert and the world’s third largest desert, after the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic. However, this desert was once bursting with vegetation, grasslands, lakes and rivers, providing a suitable environment for humans to inhabit. So how did such an enormous transformation happen?

Our moon has been slowly drifting away from Earth over the past 2.5 billion years

We still don't have a full understanding of the evolution of the Earth-moon system. (Image credit: Elen11/Getty Images) This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Joshua Davies, Professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM

A TREE MOVES IN MINATO-KU by Amy Katoh

A TREE MOVES IN MINATO-KU It’s a matter of priorities. Minato Ward has its right! Unbeknownst to me, the powers that are in Tokyo’s Minato ward, where many Embassies are located, and many international residents of Tokyo live, decided that the venerable camphor tree in the historic Arisugawa Park needed to be moved. By chance or no, I happened by on moving day and was astonished by t

‘Seemingly impossible’: Endangered tortoise becomes first-time mom at about 100 years old

A roughly 100-year-old western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise has become a mom for the first time after reproducing with a male of the same age at Philadelphia Zoo. Mommy is a critically endangered western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise that has been at Philadelphia Zoo since 1932. (Image credit: Philadelphia Zoo) An endangered giant tortoise has become the oldest first-

On the southern edge of the world, a waterfall runs red as blood

Antarctica’s Blood Red Waterfall Blood Falls seeps from the end of the Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney. Peter Rejcek, National Science Foundation One of the world's most extreme deserts might be the last place one would expect to find a waterfall, but in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valley, a five-story fall pours slowly out of the Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney. And it's not just the idea o

Newly discovered super-Earth orbits in and out of its star’s habitable zone. Could life survive its extreme climate?

The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. (Image credit: MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO) A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD 20794d, gets farther out from its star than Mars is from the sun and, on the other end of its orbit, as close as Venus. Each orbit the plan