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  1. Where is the coldest place on Earth? - New Scientist

    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.

  2. Record broken for the coldest temperature reached by large …

    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 …

  3. Moon is coldest known place in the solar system - New Scientist

    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 …

  4. The strange physics of absolute zero and what it takes to get there

    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 …

  5. What happens at absolute zero? - New Scientist

    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 …

  6. 1709: The year that Europe froze - New Scientist

    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 …

  7. Extremely cold atoms defy entropy and refuse to heat up

    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 …

  8. Eight extremes: The coldest thing in the universe - New Scientist

    Mar 2, 2011 · Colourful but cold See gallery: " Space superlatives: The universe's extreme performers " Space itself is neither hot nor cold. In the absence of stuff with thermal …

  9. Fish need no refrigeration in Earth's coldest city - New Scientist

    Aug 21, 2013 · A fish market, and freezing fog that the sun struggles to pierce, bear witness to the ferocious chills of Yakutsk, Siberia's largest city – and the world's coldest.

  10. Moon: Double-shadowed moon craters may be coldest place in …

    Mar 14, 2022 · Some of the moon’s craters may contain “double-shadowed” regions that are so dark they would be among the coldest places in the solar system. The small tilt of the moon – …