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Another storm has rapidly intensified. This time, it’s Hurricane Milton. The now Category 5 hurricane, packing over 160 mph winds, is projected to make landfall on the west coast of the Florida peninsula on Wednesday, and is tracking towards the well-populated Tampa Bay region. The hurricane jumped from a Category 1 to 5 in under...

AI is demanding more and more energy for its immense processing needs, and while many of it’s leaders are addressing the climate concerns, others are letting artificial intelligence lead the way. Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is among the latter, for one. Appearing at a recent Washington AI summit, Schmidt argued that current climate goals should...

Hurricane Milton strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane this morning as it barrels toward a Florida landfall later this week. Spaghetti models and the National Hurricane Center‘s prediction cone paint a stark picture of a major hurricane landfall as soon as Wednesday. Now is the time when we all love to stare at cones and...

Scientists have found a trio of stars dancing a high-speed cosmic do-si-do.  In fact, the stars’ tempo is so rapid, astronomers have labeled this a new record: Here, a pair of stars orbit each other in less than two Earth days, while a third makes a trip around them in 25 days. Before this discovery,...

Nuclear fuel lasts a long time. But not forever. Both Voyager craft, launched in 1977, convert heat produced by the decay of radioactive plutonium-238 into electricity. Over the decades, NASA engineers have strategically shut off instruments to extend the life of Voyager 1 and 2, which are respectively well over 15 and 12 billion miles...

NASA’s about to launch a huge spacecraft to a world harboring voluminous seas. Planetary scientists suspect Jupiter’s moon Europa contains an ocean at least twice the size of Earth’s. The Europa Clipper probe — which is the length of a basketball court and the largest craft the agency has sent on a planetary mission —...

The Northern Lights are set to make another appearance over the next few days, bathing the sky over the U.S.-Canadian border in a beautiful display of colour. Here’s how you can view the aurora borealis’ amazing natural light show. SEE ALSO: Footage shows return of colossal sunspot that created Northern Lights According to the U.S....

Zooming through the outer reaches of the solar system, A NASA spacecraft just clocked a distance 60 times farther from the sun than Earth. The extraordinary benchmark announced this week means the New Horizons probe has doubled its 2015 distance, when it was snapping pictures of Pluto and its moons.  Perhaps more surprising than this...

There’s a class of objects journeying around our solar system dubbed “centaurs.” They don’t come near Earth, but NASA just zoomed in on one with the powerful James Webb Space Telescope. The centaurs are thought to be icy objects from the solar system outskirts, where Pluto lives, but they’ve moved inward and now inhabit the...

If you spot famed childhood science entertainer Bill Nye on the streets and feel compelled to ask for a brag-worthy selfie, you better be able to show where you stand on climate policy. That’s because the celebrity and newly minted “Climate Guy” is drawing a line: He’ll take your photos, but only if you’re voting...