In 2022, an international research team aboard the MARIA S. MERIAN made a remarkable discovery in a hydrothermal field. They found it 3,000 meters (9,842 feet) below the ocean surface. The team discovered the first known hydrothermal field along the 500-kilometer-long Knipovich Ridge. This mountain range is located near Spitsbergen, a Norwegian archipelago in the … Read more
Scientists have discovered a never-before-seen hydrothermal vent system located in an unlikely place on the Arctic ocean floor. The deep-sea vents, which pump out scorching water and mysterious metals, are in an area that researchers thought was geologically dead. The newly discovered vents, named after various entities from Norse mythology, lie at a depth of … Read more
Image caption, Many oil and gas tankers in the Arctic use heavy fuel oil to power their engines Item information A ban on the most polluting and climate-damaging fuel for ships is in force in Arctic waters. Heavy fuel oil (HFO) is a tarry, thick, but relatively cheap oil that is widely used in shipping … Read more
A spacewalk by two NASA astronauts on the International Space Station ended almost as soon as it began Monday morning when water from one of the space suits began spewing into the airlock. “There’s water everywhere,” Tracy Dyson, one of the astronauts, reported to mission control. That was a few minutes after she and Mike … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Reconstruction of the oldest sea-going reptile in the Southern Hemisphere. Nothosaurs swim along the ancient south polar coast of what is now New Zealand about 246 million years ago. Credit: Stavros Kundromichalis × close to Reconstruction of the oldest sea-going … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! by Hannah Bird, Phys.org Melting sea ice in Iceland, part of the Arctic. Credit: Unsplash, Rolf Gelpke. × close to Melting sea ice in Iceland, part of the Arctic. Credit: Unsplash, Rolf Gelpke. Global warming is a pervasive problem, with … Read more
Scientists have made an unexpected discovery on Greenland’s Arctic ice cap. As the frozen environment awakens in spring after months spent in darkness each year, signs of life begin to return to Greenland’s icy landscape. Several large animals, including the region’s polar bears, arctic terns and musk oxen, begin to move as sunlight warms the … Read more
In a groundbreaking step for the European and international space markets, Swedish Space Agency (SSC) and the South Korean rocket company Perigee Aerospace Inc. have entered into a cooperation agreement to jointly launch satellites from the Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden from 2025. If all goes well, Perigee’s Blue Whale 1 microlauncher will be … Read more