Gas flaring, in which excess natural gas is intentionally burned into the air, is one way methane is released from...
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NASA's experimental supersonic jet is ready to show off a red, white and blue color scheme ahead of its maiden...
Near the top of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the...
A new study reveals that humanity is at risk of falling into 14 evolutionary dead ends, called “evolutionary traps”, from...
It's possible that the most famous annual meteor shower will soon reach its maximum: the Leonids. These ultra-fast meteors are...
SpaceX launched 23 Starlink internet satellites from Florida on Saturday (November 18), the first of two Starlink missions planned for...
Aboard the International Space Station is a small laboratory the size of a small refrigerator that makes some of the...
There's still a lot we don't know about the interior of our planet, but scientists have recently discovered that water...
An artist's concept shows a variety of rocky, Earth-like planets that may exist throughout the universe. NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC-California Institute...
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