Oymyakon is the coldest permanently-inhabited place on Earth and is found in the Arctic Circle’s Northern Pole of Cold. In 1933, it recorded its lowest temperature of -67.7°C.

Feb 4, 2009 · Part of a lagoon which froze over in 1708, Venice, Italy, by Gabriele Bella (1733-99) People across Europe awoke on 6 January 1709 to find the temperature had plummeted. A three …

Dec 14, 2022 · Physics The strange physics of absolute zero and what it takes to get there Weird things happen down at -273°C, the coldest possible temperature. Now we're building quantum fridges, …

Feb 17, 2010 · The Boomerang Nebula is the coldest natural object known in the universe, seen here by the Hubble Space Telescope The curious things that happen at low temperatures keep on throwing …

Jan 31, 2024 · Four-atom molecules glued together by microwaves have broken the record for being the most complicated molecule to reach temperatures just billionths of a degree away from absolute zero

Sep 18, 2009 · Poor Pluto. First it gets kicked out of the planet club, now it’s not even the coldest known place in the solar system. Dark craters near the moon’s south pole have snatched that title ...

Dec 12, 2024 · Environment Global forecast for 2025 sees temperatures falling back below 1.5°C La Niña conditions are expected to lead to a slightly cooler average global surface temperature in 2025, …

May 22, 2025 · The unusual orbit of a possible dwarf planet, known as 2017 OF201, makes it less likely that our solar system contains a hidden ninth “Planet X”

Feb 4, 2026 · The late photographer's work depicting some of the world's coldest places is collected in his new book Genesis

Aug 14, 2025 · Physics Extremely cold atoms defy entropy and refuse to heat up Adding energy to a group of ultracold atoms should make them fly away from each other with many different energies, …