A NASA spacecraft will make another close pass of the sun
A NASA spacecraft will make its second close brush with the sun. The Parker Solar Probe made its record-breaking first…
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Takeaways from Associated Press report on efforts to capture carbon in the ocean
A growing industry is racing to engineer a solution to global warming using the absorbent power of the oceans. Dozens…
Ocean dumping – or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon
Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in…
Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano erupts, prompting alert level to be raised
The Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano in south-central Indonesia has erupted, sending an ash column 26,000 feet high and prompting…
Researchers find a hint at how to delay Alzheimer’s symptoms. Now they have to prove it
An experimental treatment appears to postpone Alzheimer’s symptoms in some people genetically destined to get the disease at a young…
Venus passes between the Earth and sun this weekend — but don’t try to look for it
Venus will pass between the Earth and sun during what’s called an inferior conjunction. But don’t plan on seeing the…
How will the universe end? A changing understanding of dark energy may provide a new answer
Scientists are homing in on the nature of a mysterious force called dark energy, and nothing short of the fate…
Who else has been stuck in space? A short history of long spaceflights
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission…
The spring equinox is here. What does that mean?
Spring gets its official start Thursday in the Northern Hemisphere with the arrival of the vernal equinox. But what does…
European telescope studying the dark universe unveils new images of distant galaxies
A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies.…