When a black hole and a neutron star collide, it might shower outer space with precious metals like gold and platinum while spewing out radioactive elements.

Cue the greenage! It’s midsummer, which means daily afternoon thunderstorms that fill the sky with dark clouds, heavy rain, and scenes like this one out of Pennsylvania. While we may be out of the primary severe season that typically lasts from April through June, Mother Nature continues to prove you don’t need a severe or supercell thunderstorm to produce impressive views and storm structure.

Humanity’s farthest and longest-lived spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, achieve 40 years of operation and exploration this August and September. Despite their vast distance, they continue to communicate with NASA daily, still probing the final frontier.

A virus is driving a breed of caterpillar on a march to its death after which it explodes to infect other insects.

Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

If current trends continue, the Arctic will be ice-free on August 15, 2017. Nobel laureates agree with my conservative forecast.

Progressives worried about climate change and social justice have a message for Prince William and Princess Kate: Stop having children.

CNN recently showcased the world’s first “active laser weapon,” deployed by the Navy.

A so-called seismic zone off the coast of Alaska could trigger deadly tsunamis like the one that caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011, a new study finds.

In an effort to stop a species of killer fish from infiltrating the Great Lakes, Michigan’s governor on Tuesday launched the “Invasive Carp Challenge,” the state’s latest response to the aggressive invaders.

British disease experts have suggested to do away with the “incorrect” advice to always finish a course of antibiotics, saying the approach was fuelling the spread of drug resistance.

Observations conducted with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have uncovered a young stellar cluster designated NGC 3293. The data provided by the spacecraft reveal insights about its stellar population. The findings were presented July 27 in a paper published on arXiv.org.

Naturally, we have all recently been focussing on EVs, as far as electricity demand has been concerned.

But what about domestic heating and cooking, as RogerJC rightly asks?

German physicists: “CO2 plays only minor role for global climate”

In a just published study in The Open Atmospheric Science Journal here, German scientists Horst-Joachim Lüdecke and Carl-Otto Weiss have used a large number of temperature proxies worldwide to construct a global temperature mean over the last 2000 years, dubbed G7, in order to find out more about the sun’s role on climate change.

Thousands of aging solar panels sited throughout China could trigger an environmental crisis over the next two decades, according to industry experts.

The most powerful exploding stars are popping up in unexpected places, new research indicates. It turns out that these super-bright “rebel” supernovas can form in “heavy metal” areas, using elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, scientists said in the new study.

Australian scientists at the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) ordered a review of temperature recording instruments after the government agency was caught tampering with temperature logs in several locations.