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A Massive Study of Nearly Every Glacier on Earth Just Revealed a Devastating Trend NICOLETTA LANESE, LIVE SCIENCE 29 APRIL 2021 Earth's glaciers are shrinking, and in the past 20 years, the rate of shrinkage has steadily sped up, according to a new study of nearly every glacier on the planet. Glaciers mostly lose mass through ice melt, but they also shrink due to other processes, such as sublimation, where water evaporates directly from the ice, and calving, where large chunks of ice break off the edge of a glacier, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA...

Mars first flight unlocked and 5 other top space and science stories this week CNN 1 hr ago By Ashley Strickland, CNN © NASA NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took this shot while hovering over the Martian surface on April 19. Welcome to Wonder Theory, your weekly space and science digest. When Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon's surface in 1969, it became a defining moment for the space age. For the first time, humans truly explored beyond their home -- and it won't be the last. We were witnesses to history once again as two robotic explorers achieved landmark firsts on ...

Japan tsunami: Smoke billowing from the damaged Fukishima nuclear power plant (Image: GETTY) READ MORE According to NASA, the tsunami pulled the Japanese coast with walls of water between five and 10m in height. In Miyako, a city in the Iwate Prefecture, the tsunami's highest elevation upland from the shore reached more than 130ft (40.5m) above sea level. Near Sendai in Tohoku, waters rushed as far as 3.7 miles (6km) inland. The tremor was so powerful, it shifted Japan by about eight feet (2.4m) to the east. The earthquake also shortened our days by 1.8 microseconds and shifted the planet's a...

Pictures from space! Our image of the day Space 16/02/2021 Space.com Staff © Provided by Space Valentine Island in northern Western Australia is a swirling mix of blues and reddish browns, as seen from space by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. The mission, which is made up of two satellites, imaged the tiny island for Valentine's Day. Valentine Island is just about 1 mile (1.60 kilometers) long and 0.15 miles (250 meters) wide and can be found in the King Sound, a large gulf that has one of the highest tides in all of Australia. Space can be a wondrous place, and we've ...

NASA's Retro-pop Image of Anti-Atlas Mountains on Instagram is a Work of Art FOLLOW US ON: Instagram followers of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) were in for some retro pop art treat on Thursday. The American space agency shared an infrared image of the Anti-Atlas mountains situated above 708 kilometres in southwest Morocco. The infrared image captured the mountain range in some popping bright colours that are otherwise invisible to the human eye. Captioning the image, NASA wrote that the mountains were formed because of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates that colli...