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Americans will use anything but the metric system. So let's put that to its most logical conclusion and measure asteroids with the first US president: George Washington.
The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...
Two Virginia high schoolers with a love for environmental science are taking their knowledge to the world of podcasting, with a goal of helping their community.
Professor Joshua Hardt helps lead a seismic monitoring project to enhance public understanding of science in West Texas.
A Trump administration budget proposal for NOAA would slash funding for climate and earth sciences — including shuttering ...
I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...
The 2026 fiscal year budget proposal recommendations from President Donald Trump's administration include cuts for the NASA, ...
Beginning in the 1960s, satellite instruments have measured Earth's reflected broadband shortwave radiation and emitted ...
Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new Pontifical Academy of Sciences document ...
The collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research.
Algae grown under Mars-like conditions could make bioplastic building materials for structures to harbor life in space.