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Earth-orbiting satellites could begin colliding with one another in less than three days in a worst-case-scenario scenario — potentially triggering a runaway cascade that may render low Earth orbit (LEO) unusable, a new preprint study warns….

CLIMATEWIRE | President Donald Trump is withdrawing the United States from the world’s overarching treaty on climate change in a move that escalates his attempts to reverse years of global negotiations toward addressing rising temperatures.

The…

PHOENIX, Arizona — On Wednesday (Jan. 7), scientists made a major announcement at the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society: Four next-gen telescopes have secured private funding, and they should roll out at a very rapid pace….

As a child growing up in Beaverton, Ashwin Sivakumar thought of puffins much the way he did penguins and polar bears – as special creatures from the globe’s far reaches that he would never get to see in the wild.

And then, on a family outing…

On the arid margins of northeast Africa, beneath the sediment and heat of the Gulf of Suez, a tectonic feature long thought geologically extinct is shifting again. Barely measurable, but persistent. Slow enough to escape notice for decades….

Giulia Wood grew up a short walk from Puget Sound in a rural section of Fidalgo Island. She spent playtimes at tide pools, school field trips examining tiny crabs, family time hiking through public woodlands, free time walking mudflats and…

In an unprecedented breakthrough, NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer (IXPE) has captured extraordinary details of the white dwarf star EX Hydrae. Using X-ray polarization to map the energetic system, scientists are revealing a new…