Distorted maps have misled you: Greenland isn't as big as you think.
It's certainly not a small island: It's about three times the size of Texas. But on most maps, Greenland looks almost as big as the entire continent of Africa. In fact, it's 14 times smaller than ...
NASA’s two stuck astronauts are finally closing in on their return to Earth after 9 months in space
Astronaut Suni Williams, in response to a question during a news conference, took issue with Elon Musk’s recent call to dump ...
Giant glaciers pulverized Earth's ancient rocks, setting the stage for complex life
Imagine floating in space, gazing on a frozen white orb. The ball hangs in the void, lonely and gleaming in the light from ...
Earth is already shooting through the 1.5°C global warming limit, two major studies show
Earth is crossing the 1.5°C limit outlined in the Paris Agreement, beyond which scientists predict catastrophic harm to ...
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SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites to orbit, loses Falcon 9 booster after landing (video)
"Following the successful landing, an off-nominal fire in the aft end of the rocket damaged one of the booster's landing legs ...
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Zooming out on Google Maps no longer shows a flat map
Google announced Thursday it will begin showing the Earth as a globe rather than a flat "mercator projection" as it formerly had. The result is that when you zoom out all the way in Google Maps ...
Designing Nuclear-Armed Rockets To Destroy Doomsday Asteroids
A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...