11 mins ago – Science Flaring natural gas burns by jack pumps at an oil well near Buford, North Dakota. Photo: William Campbell/Corbis via Getty Images...
The Sun is not exactly placid, though it appears pretty peaceful in the quick glances we can steal with our naked eyes. In reality though, the...
Tiny bubbles of ancient air trapped in ice cores from Greenland suggest we’ve been seriously overestimating the natural cycle of methane, while vastly undervaluing our own...
But just as things were getting good, the probe stopped transmitting 57 minutes and 75 miles into its descent, crushed by the pressure of Jupiter’s atmosphere....
But methane — the main component in natural gas and an even more effective heat-trapping gas — is a close second. Scientists say that atmospheric methane...
Humans are responsible for as much as 40 percent more methane emissions than previously estimated, according to a new study published in the journal Nature today....
By Eric Ralph Posted on February 19, 2020 SpaceX has signed an agreement with a space tourism company that could see its Crew Dragon spacecraft take...
Researchers have described the first “articulated” remains of a Neanderthal to be discovered in a decade. An articulated skeleton is one where the bones are still...
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Neanderthal skeleton unearthed in an Iraqi cave already famous for fossils of these extinct cousins of our species is...
The potential launch of tens of thousands of satellites is a serious threat to astronomy, according to the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Now, it’s trying to find...
