Garter snakes can survive being frozen solid for hours. Here’s how evolution, biochemistry and behavior have allowed them to cheat winter.
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Imagine being woken by a blizzard, only to realize you’ve been fully encased inside a solid block…

Garter snakes can survive being frozen solid for hours. Here’s how evolution, biochemistry and behavior have allowed them to cheat winter.
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Imagine being woken by a blizzard, only to realize you’ve been fully encased inside a solid block…

The new moon of January will be at 2:52 p.m. EST (1952 GMT) on Jan. 18, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory.
A new moon is, technically, a conjunction of the sun and moon. The two bodies share the same celestial longitude — if one drew a…

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA’s new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, into orbit.
Exoplanets are worlds that orbit…

Over 40,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a full reversal, a rare phenomenon in which the North and South magnetic poles switched places. Now, using satellite data and ground-based magnetic records, scientists have…

Astronomers have gotten a rare glimpse at four baby planets as they’re growing up, and it reveals something surprising: These toddler worlds are getting lighter as they age.
The quadruplet worlds orbit in tightly packed paths around the star…

Mars is absolutely dripping with evidence that the red planet was once a striking blue, complete with glistening lakes, snaking rivers, and vast oceans. Now, scientists have calculated the ‘sea level’ during the wettest time known in Martian…

Quick facts
What it is: The star cluster Westerlund 2
Where it is: 20,000 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Carina
When it was shared: Dec. 19, 2025
Bordered by orange and brown clouds of gas and dust and filled with shimmering stars,…

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed an infant star 20 times larger than the sun setting interstellar clouds ablaze. The source of this cosmic conflagration is a stellar jet travelling at an incredible 2.2 million miles…

Whether it disrupts access at work or makes your favorite show buffer at its most suspenseful moment, the inconvenience of an unreliable internet connection is something we’ve all experienced. Large-scale outages over the years have served as…