A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an exoplanet-hunting ...

Google envisions putting a legion of satellites into a special kind of orbit that rides along the day-night terminator, where ...

For years, scientists have imagined a future where secure quantum links circle the planet from space. Satellites would create ...

We've known about wind on Mars for decades, but thanks to new research from a Swiss team, we now know those winds can reach ...

Spraying particles into Earth's atmosphere to try and cool a warming planet might sound like a good idea in theory, but it will only work if it's done properly – and even then, it could carry risks ...

Cloud cover is bad for picnics and for viewing stars through a telescope. But an exoplanet with dense or even total cloud ...

“A transmitter on the radiosonde sends the data back to tracking equipment on the ground every one to two seconds. By ...

Despite AI-driven optimism and anticipated Fed rate cuts, I see mounting risks for the US economy in the next 6-12 months.

Across 24 peaks and 240 miles through the Sierra Nevada, a UC Davis team searches for high-altitude Jeffrey pines to learn ...

The statistics are sobering: one in ten people worldwide are at risk of hunger while 2 billion people are overweight or obese, roughly one-third of ...

Battle over oil project that has raised hopes and concern looms large as COP30, the annual UN climate conference, begins in ...