This image provided by NASA shows an artist’s illustration of the Tess telescope. Astronomers have discovered six planets orbiting a bright nearby star in perfect rhythmic harmony. They say it’s a rare, frozen-in-time cosmic wonder that can help explain how solar systems across the galaxy came to be. The compact in-sync system, announced Wednesday, is …
The Aurora Australis above the waters of Lake Ellesmere on the outskirts of Christchurch, New … [+] Zealand, on December 1, 2023. (Photo by Sanka Vidanagama/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images A series of three geomagnetic storms last week caused aurora displays at the most southerly latitudes in the northern hemisphere for 20 …
Imen Hbiri, the founder of RoboCare, prepares to fly a drone over an agricultural area to scan the trees from the air. A drone buzzed back and forth above rows of verdant orange trees planted near Nabeul, eastern Tunisia. The black unmanned aircraft, equipped with a multi-lens camera and sensors, has been enlisted by Tunisian …
A gas flare from a refinery in Ecuador. Fifty oil and gas companies representing 40 percent of global production pledged to decarbonize their operations by 2050 at the UN’s COP28 climate talks in Dubai on Saturday. Saudi giant Aramco and ADNOC of the United Arab Emirates were among 29 national companies to sign a non-binding …
More than 50 world leaders took the stage at COP28 for the second day in a row. Nearly 120 nations pledged to triple the world’s renewable energy within seven years at UN climate talks Saturday as the United States pushed to crank up nuclear capacity and slash methane emissions. With smoggy skies in Dubai highlighting …
About 80,000 people are registered to take part in the biggest edition yet of the UN climate talks in Dubai. Dubai’s glitzy skyline was obscured by a blanket of smog rated as “unhealthy” on Sunday as thousands of delegates attended a COP28 conference dedicated to the harmful effects of air pollution. The air quality index …
Spectacular: the UN COP28 summit in Dubai is being held on the old Expo 2020 site. They call the giant climate business expo running outside the COP28 United Nations talks in Dubai the “green zone”. With the enormous former Expo 2020 site given over to green—and not so green—companies to trumpet their climate credentials, the …
The Perseus Molecular Cloud complex, one of the nearest star forming regions and rich in young … [+] stellar objects. getty The ingredients for life may have formed in interstellar space alongside stars or planets and be far older than scientists thought, according to new research by chemists. It suggests that the James Webb Space …
Star shower taken in china getty A very rare meteor shower could light up night skies Saturday night into Sunday morning, with up to 200 shooting stars per hour according to some predictions. The shower is known as the December phi Cassiopeiids (DPC) #446, according to the American Meteor Society (AMS). “Studies revealed that these …
In this June 11, 2014 file photo, longhorn cattle wander through the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, located in the Badlands of North Dakota. A new case of cattle anthrax has been confirmed in southwest North Dakota’s Grant County, bringing the number of cases in the state to 25 this year, according to state agriculture officials, …