Facebook launches climate change information center
Facebook has launched a new resource to help in the fight against climate change. On Tuesday, ahead of the annual Climate Week summit in New York City, the company announced…
Carl Sagan predicted life on Venus in 1967. We may be close to proving him right.
Millions of space nerds reacted with joy Monday to a study showing the atmosphere of Venus contains phosphine, a chemical byproduct of biological life. But none would have been more…
Why the Atlantic is teeming with storms right now
The Atlantic is churning with storms. There are currently five tropical cyclones spinning in the Atlantic Ocean, making for some vivid satellite imagery of an aggressive, bustling sea. As of…
Colossal fires look ever more menacing, viewed from space
If intelligent life beyond Earth (should it exist) could view our planet right now, they might be astonished by the great plume of smoke curling over the ocean. It’s a…
Watch a plane fly through San Francisco’s orange, dystopian skies
The dystopia is colored orange. The profoundly dense smoke layer over the San Francisco region on Sept. 9, born from California’s record-breaking fire season, resulted in a dramatically orange glow…
Fire experts: Western fires are ‘unreal’
Wildfire experts and meteorologists are aghast at the explosion in Western wildfires. Massive, rapidly moving fires have come alive in California, Washington, and Oregon as potent winds fanned flames over…
One of California’s out of control fires was sparked by a gender reveal party explosion
More than 600 firefighters in California’s San Bernardino County are still struggling to contain a fire that began on Saturday in El Dorado Ranch Park, near the city of Yuicapa.…
SpaceX releases a cool test flight video for Starship, or possibly a flying water bottle
SpaceX, with relatively little pomp and circumstance, carried out another successful test flight for its Starship, the company’s vehicle aimed at long-distance space flight. The launch and 150-meter test flight…
What do these gorgeous high-resolution sun photos look like to you?
July brought us the best close-up photos of the sun that the world has ever seen. Now, there are some new ones. In a new photo release from the Leibniz…
Why chaos prevents us from predicting the weather
Mashable’s series Algorithms explores the mysterious lines of code that increasingly control our lives — and our futures. Will a storm probably hit my town? Will it be a terrible…