Is coal really making a comeback?
Coal was on the way out. That’s how it looked last year, anyway, when the International Energy Agency…
How to see the Orionid meteor shower 2026 peak this week — and when to look
If you love watching meteors, 2026 has given you plenty to enjoy. This summer, the annual Perseid meteor…
Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude \ Anthropic
Quantum computers will need carefully designed circuits to run useful algorithms on limited hardware. We gave Claude plain-language…
“Crawzilla” was huge. Then scientists found an even bigger crayfish
A giant crayfish nicknamed “Crawzilla” has sparked an unexpected scientific discovery, revealing a possible biological limit to how…
Scientists find ‘gemstones’ in atmosphere of bizarre, scorching-hot ‘marshmallow’ exoplanet
Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have unraveled some of the atmospheric secrets of…
Britain-sized Doomsday Glacier is melting faster than feared
The high cliffs of Thwaites Glacier taken from the British Antarctic Survey Twin Otter aircraft (Rob Larter/British Antarctic…
On this day in space! Oct. 16, 1975: NASA launches the 1st-ever GOES weather satellite to watch Earth from space
On Oct. 16, 1975, NASA launched the first operational GOES satellite! GOES-A was the first in a series…
A Radio Phoenix Beyond the Zone of Avoidance
We’ve gotta give credit to space scientists. They come up with great names for things, probably because so…
Jackie, the famous the bald eagle mama in California, died of bird flu
A newly released report sheds new light on the death of Jackie, the famed bald eagle mother who…
Caves on the moon are target of new NASA mission
NASA wants to search for caves on the moon. How will it search? And where? A new mission…
How we’re helping the world prepare for natural disasters
Today is International ShakeOut Day, when millions practice earthquake drills. Our Android Earthquake Alerts System turns smartphones into…
The TWA Hotel is about to rocket back to the Space Age with ‘Mission 60s’ celebration in NYC
Your invitation to revisit the Space Age has arrived. Whether you miss the days when people got dressed…