EPA implements climate law’s methane fee as Republicans plan repeal
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule Tuesday that implements a charge for oil and gas companies that ...
A distant planet seems to have a sulfur-rich atmosphere, hinting at alien volcanoes
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...
The Curious Case of Iconic Star Vega’s Missing Planets
Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...
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Ice-giant planet was having a bad day when Voyager came calling
Jamie Jasinski at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues reanalysed Voyager 2 data from ...
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How can Jupiter have no surface? A dive into a planet so big, it could swallow 1,000 Earths
Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...
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The Webb Telescope Found A Planet Orbiting A Star 35 Light Years Away — Its Data Is Just Plain Odd
Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...
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Global Carbon Emissions Rise, Pushing World Toward Dreaded Warming Threshold
further jeopardizing the planet’s prospect of meeting a key goal set by the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global warming, ...
California air regulators approve changes to climate program that could raise gas prices
California air regulators have voted to approve changes to a key climate program aimed at reducing planet-warming emissions ...
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Oil profits could save the planet if governments tax them now
Oil profits could fund climate commitments; taxing windfall gains may finance poorer countries' climate protection.
New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
Life Beyond Earth? NASA’s Webb Telescope Eyes Vital Clues on Distant Planets
Research indicates that the James Webb Space Telescope could help confirm the presence of life-supporting atmospheres on exoplanets in the "Goldilocks zone," enhancing the likelihood of discovering ...