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Astronomers discover three planets orbiting younger Sun-like star
An international team of astronomers has discovered a trio of hot worlds larger than Earth orbiting…
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Habitable earth-sized planet discovered but its Sun doesn't set for over two weeks
The Earth isn’t going to last forever. Scientists continue to debate over what poses the greater …
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Elon Musk wants Tesla to build cars on another planet before he's dead
"I'd like to see one before I'm dead. That would be cool," Musk said of an off-planet Tesla factory…
Tim Levin
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European colonizers killed so many indigenous Americans that the planet cooled down, a new study reveals
To approximate population numbers, researchers often rely on a combination of European eyewitness a…
Aylin Woodward
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The companies polluting the planet have spent millions to make you think carpooling and recycling will save us
The plastics industry kickstarted recycling to avoid bans on plastic packaging. Decades later, BP i…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter has a salty ocean beneath its surface, making it a contender for alien life
"Ceres is the latest evidence that our solar system is filled with ancient habitable environments,"…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Extreme heat causes more deaths than storms, fires, and floods in the US. Cities are responding by naming heat czars and looking for ways to cool urban areas.
Illness from extreme heat, like heat stroke, is the top cause of weather-related deaths in the US. …
Tim Paradis
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A planet made of melted metal could be the key for finding the next Earth
A planet that’s gassy like Jupiter with melted metals in its atmosphere, and placed right next to t…
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This radical atmospheric hack could cool our planet super fast
In 2011, British research collaboration Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (S…
Sarah Kramer
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NASA's InSight Mars lander just gave scientists an unprecedented look at the guts of the red planet. Here's how they compare to Earth's.
By analyzing a dozen quakes, NASA's InSight lander has helped scientists estimate the size and make…
Aylin Woodward
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There's almost no chance humanity will act quickly enough to prevent catastrophic climate change, so here are the geoengineering techniques that might cool the planet
Human activity has already caused Earth's temperature to rise about 1 degree C, and another half-de…
Kevin Loria
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Supermassive black hole bigger than 7 billion Suns is spinning so fast that it's close to breaking the laws of physics
Chandra’s X-ray data showed that M87 was spinning between 2.4 to 6.3 times faster than the speed of…
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The weathering Himalayas might not be behind Earth's cooling over the past 15 million years
When the Himalayas and other major mountain ranges formed, they accelerated erosion and th…
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The 'Dune' wardrobe team made 'about 2,000' costumes for the sci-fi epic, including bodysuits that actually cooled the actors off in the desert
"That's enormous. That probably outdoes anything in 'Star Wars' or any other very big sci-fi film,"…
Libby Torres
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ISRO finds that Mars is losing its atmosphere faster than Earth, and planet-encircling dust storms are speeding up the process
ISRO finds Mars’ atmospheric loss is being sped up by planet-encircling dust storms — confirming wh…
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This $115 pillow is the only one I've slept on that's literally cool to the touch - and that stays cool all night
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Mara Leighton
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A family of bears marched past a crowd to cool off in Lake Tahoe - a cute, but terrifying, example of our climate-crisis dystopia
As the climate-crisis rapidly forces humans and wildlife together in new ways, such encounters will…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Erin Sn…
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Salesforce billionaire Marc Benioff says 'it's not that hard' for companies to stop hurting the planet
Researchers in Zurich recently determined that we'd need global tree restoration of 223 million acr…
Julie Bort
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The Mars helicopter is cool — a fleet of small, levitating nanocardboard aircraft would be cooler
NASA has plans to launch Perseverance this summer with a “high risk, high reward” helicopter on boa…