Install
Space News from SpaceDaily.Com brings the space industry professional daily news from the frontier, with contract, bid, launch and on-orbit satellite news as it happens.
- 4,577articles · 365d
- 7+ hour agolatest article
- Sep 14, 2025earliest in window
- 96%with images
- 240avg words
- Science & Nature 3,086
- Science & Technology 2,968
- STEM 2,099
- People & Society 691
- Society 320
- Medical 315
- News 308
- Environment 295
Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
Tanzania’s Ol Doinyo Lengai is the only active volcano known to erupt natrocarbonatite, the coolest lava on Earth: it flows at roughly 500–590°C, against 1,100°C or more for Hawaiian basalt. Fresh flows look black or dark brown in daylight, then react with rain and atmospheric moisture until the mountainside turns chalk-white—as though someone spilled milk over the lava.
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (791+ words) Ol Doinyo Lengai’s 500–590°C carbonate lava flows black, then atmospheric moisture and rain transform its unstable minerals into pale, rapidly weathering surfaces....
Models of the flood that refilled the Mediterranean put its peak flow through Gibraltar at roughly 100 million cubic metres a second — around 1,000 times the Amazon's average discharge — with erosion at the Camarinal Sill reaching roughly 0.4 metres a day
2+ week, 6+ day ago (105+ words) When an ancient sea vanished, its return was so catastrophic that it reshaped geology itself—yet scientists still debate exactly how violent the deluge truly was....
Deep beneath the ocean floor lies a strange form of ice that can literally catch fire — frozen crystals packed with methane, hiding enormous stores of gas inside what looks like ordinary ice.
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (259+ words) Scientists are racing to unlock an energy source that could power civilization for centuries—or accelerate climate catastrophe if it escapes. Published August 8, 2026 · How we edit Somewhere beneath the seafloor of nearly every continent right now, there’s a layer of…...
The Italians named it Devil's Valley because of the steam pouring straight out of the ground. Turns out the steam was the mild part. A few kilometres below it sits enough molten rock to fill Lake Geneva forty times over
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (689+ words) Beneath Italy's steam vents lies a geothermal powerhouse so vast it could revolutionize how Europe generates clean energy—if engineers can safely tap into it. Published August 8, 2026 · How we edit The steam has been coming out of the ground for…...
How does a lake the size of Lake Ontario stay liquid under four kilometres of Antarctic ice, sealed away from sunlight and the atmosphere for something like fifteen million years?
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1224+ words) Sealed beneath Antarctic ice for millions of years, a hidden ocean-sized lake challenges our understanding of life's limits and Earth's hidden frontiers....
In 2025, Antarctic drillers reached bedrock and recovered ice that fell as snow 1.2 million years ago — with the air of that vanished world still sealed inside it
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (782+ words) A time capsule of ancient air reveals how Earth's climate operated in a world before humans existed....
The largest waterfall on Earth is hidden beneath the ocean between Greenland and Iceland, where cold water plunges more than three kilometres down the seafloor at 3.5 million cubic metres per second
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (263+ words) The ocean's most powerful waterfall moves in silence, invisible to satellites and hidden beneath one of the planet's most turbulent seas....
In September 2018, three instruments at Antarctica’s Blood Falls recorded the same hidden event as Taylor Glacier dropped about 15 millimetres, cold brine entered Lake Bonney, and the escaping water briefly slowed the ice moving above it
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (898+ words) Discovered in 1911 by geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor during Scott's Terra Nova expedition, Antarctica's Blood Falls is fed by a reservoir of iron-rich brine sealed under 400 metres of ice for roughly 1.5 million years — and scientists have finally traced the mechanism that…...
Mercury is shrinking — as its iron core slowly cools, the whole planet has contracted by up to seven kilometres, wrinkling its surface into cliffs hundreds of miles long
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (349+ words) Mercury carries the record of planetary cooling across its surface. Long, curving cliffs cut through craters and plains because the small planet lost internal...
The Earth's inner core grows by roughly a millimetre a year as molten iron freezes onto it, and that slow crystallisation releases the energy that stirs the outer core and keeps the planet's magnetic field alive
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (205+ words) Earth's inner core grows by about a millimetre a year as molten iron freezes onto its surface, and the latent heat and buoyant fluids released by that slow crystallisation drive the convection in the outer core that generates the planet's…...