Will Marshall, CEO of Planet Labs, argues that planetary intelligence is the key to aligning AI with the best interests of ...

A Chinese spacecraft on a mission to collect and return samples of a near-Earth asteroid beamed back its first image of its ...

As storm season begins, America's weather service is still reeling from Trump's sweeping cuts – the consequences could be fatal ...

The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make ...

When astronomers discovered a giant planet orbiting a dead star in 2020, they wondered how it survived its star's violent demise. Now, observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may ...

Private companies want to reflect the Sun to cool the planet. But scientists fear the geoengineering technology could disrupt monsoon rains, on which a billion people depend.

For a long time, Earth’s ending seemed settled. In about five billion years, the sun will swell into a giant, the inner Solar System will be transformed, and our planet was widely expected to be ...

First, there’s the problem of getting up into the atmosphere. Generally, the target for solar geoengineering efforts is the stratosphere, since the air there is drier and more stable, so particles ...

Solar geoengineering is often portrayed as a relatively cheap and easy fix for climate change. But as researchers take a harder look at the nuts and bolts, they’re finding considerable uncertainties, ...

Artificial intelligence hurricane forecast models learn as they go, sharpened 2025 predictions and helped people act sooner when danger came.

Nvidia, Google, and a growing list of startups are using AI to make weather reports more accurate—and show the world how powerful the technology is.