Scientists were again baffled in 2016 and 2017 when the polynya reappeared because of its vast size and distance from the coast - setting them on a hunt to uncover what was forming the hole.
Scientists first discovered the mysterious hole in the 1970s, but questions have remained about how it formed. Scientists have solved part of a longstanding mystery on how a gigantic hole in ...
Scientists have discovered how an open body of water formed in the middle of thick ice during the middle of the Antarctic winter. The polynya – the scientific name for an area of water where you would ...
Scientists have unraveled the causes of a strange phenomenon in Antarctica: a massive hole in the sea ice, as large as Switzerland, that forms intermittently. This hole, known as the Maud Rise polynya ...
The mystery behind a strange, unexplained object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea – which many suspected was a UFO – may have finally been solved. The object is thought to be over 140,000 years ...
Scientists investigate rapid Antarctic ice loss since 2016, attributed to warming and wind changes. The impact on global warming, ecosystem, and ice stability raises concerns. Uncertainty persists ...
The object, estimated to be over 140,000 years old, has for years left people puzzled as to what it is, or how it got there - with many assuming it was a crashed UFO The object was thought to be ...
The colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) is one of the ocean's biggest mysteries. There are no photographs and no footage of a living colossal squid in its natural habitat. What we do know ...
May 21, 2024 — New research on a field of pockmarks -- large, circular depressions on the seafloor -- offshore of Central California has revealed that powerful ... Record Low Antarctic Sea Ice ...
We thought we broadly understood how planets and stars form. But the discovery of dozens of pairs of young planets in a nearby nebula threatens to turn that on its head. They are worlds that ...
Archaeologists have discovered one of the world’s largest collections of ancient art, showing giants and monsters walking the Earth. In a remote area of South America, a British-led research ...