Mount Erebus Ice Caves, Antarctica Mount Erebus houses numerous ice caves that are the mystifying results of the Erebus volcano’s hot gases. The volcanic gases travel up through the cracks in the rock and seep into the summit of the mountain, where they eventually form an intricate system of ice caves.
Rather rococo, each ice cave room is covered in hexagonal ice crystals and ice particles that hang from the ceiling. Read More...
The iceberg wall is meant to mimic the one the Titanic hit in 1912, triggering a devastating sinking that killed 1,500. Titanic Museum Attraction/YouTubeVisitors touch the iceberg wall, long before the collapse.
Visitors to the Titanic Museum Attraction in Tennessee may have hoped to visit the historic catastrophe at a safe distance. But they got frightfully close to the real disaster when the museum’s iceberg wall suddenly collapsed this week. Read More...
Researchers suggest the water molecules could provide insight into the "missing link" that explains the origins of water on Earth. European Southern ObservatoryAn artist’s impression of the planet-forming disk around V883 Orionis.
Astronomers studying a remote star in the Orion constellation observed gaseous water molecules with a chemical composition stunningly similar to water found in comets near Earth. And experts think this star can help explain how Earth first got its water billions of years ago. Read More...
