NASA Discovers 10 Potential Planets That May Be Habitable
NASA revealed Monday that one of its teams discovered hundreds of new potential planets, 10 of which may be habitable. The Kepler space telescope team …
A Solution to Our Clean Energy Problem May Lie Right Beneath Our Feet
On Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula, a short drive from the country’s capital, a team of scientists and engineers is pursuing what they see as an energy …
Why Hurricane Matthew Hit Haiti So Hard
Before Hurricane Matthew hit the United States this week the storm tore through the Caribbean, bringing torrential rain and high winds to Haiti, Cuba and …
Trump and Clinton Diverge Wildly on Questions of Science Policy
A major survey on science policy completed by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton has laid bare a wide gap in how the two major party …
How Cheap Internet Access Could Be SpaceX’s Secret Weapon
Elon Musk is not one to let setbacks slow him down, even when setbacks involve the explosion of a rocket containing cargo precious to fellow …
300 Million Children Are Living With Toxic Air Pollution, UNICEF Says
Some 300 million children globally live in areas with toxic levels of air pollution that are more than six times higher than guidelines set by …
Mysterious Flash Over Australia Was Likely a Meteor Crashing Offshore
A thunderous boom and a bright flash over the coast of northeastern Australia Monday night may have been a “big meteor” strike, according to local …
Reagan Administration Officials at First Dismissed the Ozone Hole. Here’s What Changed
The May 1985 paper, published in top scientific journal Nature, rocked the world: British scientists, backed up by harrowing images, revealed that, over Antarctica, a …
Virginia Hall Was America’s Most Successful Female WWII Spy. But She Was Almost Kept From Serving
When Gina Haspel became the first female director of the CIA in 2018, she talked of how she had stood “on the shoulders of heroines …
Watch Live: Elon Musk Announces Plans for SpaceX Mars Mission
Elon Musk is expected to announce plans for the colonization of Mars today during a speech at the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico. Musk, …