See D.C.’s Early Blooming Cherry Blossoms After a Super-Warm Winter
It was weirdly warm in Washington D.C. and along much of the U.S. East Coast this winter. And, despite some brief bursts of colder temperatures, the unseasonable weather has had…
NASA Is Still Trying to Salvage Its Water-Hunting Moon CubeSat
NASA engineers are struggling to get a lunar probe on the right track and have until the end of April to fix the spacecraft’s thrusters so that it is able…
Mazel Tov! 90-Year-Old Mr. Pickles Fathers Three Tortoises
At 90, Mr. Pickles the radiated tortoise is the oldest animal at the Houston Zoo. And now, the elderly reptile is also the newest father on the zoo’s premises. CC…
SpaceX’s Upgraded Starlink Satellites Aren’t Doing So Well
The newly launched Starlink V2 Mini satellites appear to be in trouble, Elon Musk confirmed yesterday. The SpaceX CEO said some units will likely have to be deorbited and destroyed…
Webb Telescope Spots a Planet With ‘Gritty’ Clouds Just 40 Light-Years Away
The Webb Space Telescope just turned its infrared gaze at an exoplanet and found dense clouds swirling in the atmosphere of this quirky world. CC Off English The planet—VHS 1256b—has…
The UN Wants Big Oil’s Help on Climate. Good Luck With That
The United Nations wants Big Oil to have a seat at the table when it comes to climate solutions—an idea kind of like inviting a fox into a henhouse. CC…
Why the Longest Coal Strike in Alabama History Ended With No New Contract
This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here. CC Off English Almost 1,000 coal miners at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, are…
Things Get Bitter in the Sweet Tooth Season 2 Trailer
It hasn’t quite been two years since season one of Sweet Tooth, based on the post-apocalyptic comic by Jeff Lemire, ended, but it must seem longer to fans who’ve been…
Remnants of a Glacier Found Near Martian Equator
Scientists have spotted a relict glacier on Mars, near the equator—far from the parts of the planet where water ice is known to exist today. While this leftover glacial structure…
New IPCC Report: ‘Rapidly Closing Window of Opportunity’ to Reverse Climate Change
We need to cut global greenhouse gas emissions by more than half over the next decade in order to stave off the worst impacts of climate change, says a blockbuster…