Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images This story is part of CNET Zero, a series that chronicles the impact of climate change and explores what’s being done about the problem. “Cancer…
Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images “Cancer Alley” is an 85-mile stretch of land in Louisiana containing 150 petrochemical facilities situated near mostly Black, low-income residents who suffer from abnormally high…
An artist’s impression of what the “terminator” zone may be like on Proxima b. ESO/M. Kornmesser What if night and day were places to visit rather than times to pass?…
NASA’s James Webb Telescope hit another milestone on Wednesday, identifying its first exoplanet 41 light-years away that is almost exactly the same size as Earth. Formally dubbed LHS 475 b,…
An illustration of an ultracool dwarf star (front, red) with a companion white dwarf (back, white with blue haze). Getty Images It’s always a rare delight when astronomers stumble upon…
Artist illustration of TOI 700 e orbiting in the habitable zone of its star. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Robert Hurt Well, hello there! Astronomers have discovered a previously undetected Earth-size planet hanging out in…
An illustration of the exoplanet LHS 475 b. NASA, ESA, CSA, L. Hustak (STScI) NASA and the European Space Agency’s next-generation space observatory has been operating for less than a…
NASA said a new analysis of distant galaxies captured by the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed what may be the most chemically primitive galaxy identified thus far. The research…
Authorities in Flagler County, Florida, are overseeing the removal of a 21-foot orca that beached itself on the coast. The orca, which beached itself and subsequently died on the coast…
Artist illustration of TOI 700 e orbiting in the habitable zone of its star. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Robert Hurt Well, hello there! Astronomers have discovered a previously undetected Earth-size planet hanging out in…
